Jump to content

Filippo Pigafetta: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
Bender the Bot (talk | contribs)
m top: http→https for Google Books and Google News using AWB
(8 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
'''Filippo Pigafetta''' (1533–1604) was an Italian mathematician and explorer.
'''Filippo Pigafetta''' (1533–1604) was an Italian mathematician and explorer.
[[File:Territorii Vicentini descriptionem map 1608.jpg|thumb|Map of Vicenza country. From Filippo Pigafetta, ''Novam hanc et accuratissima Territorii Vicentini descriptionem'', in [[Abraham Ortelius]], ''Theatro del mondo'', Anversa, 1608. Vicenza, Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana.]]


Pigafetta's ''Relatione del reame del Congo'' (1591) was translated into [[English language|English]], [[Latin]] (as ''Regnum Congo''), [[French language|French]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and [[German language|German]]. In 1608 he published an [[Italian language|Italian]] version of the ''[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]]'' of [[Abraham Ortelius]].<ref name="Pigafetta2007">{{cite book|author=Antonio Pigafetta|editor=Theodore J. Cachey Jr.|title=The First Voyage Around the World, 1519–1522: An Account of Magellan's Expedition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mcgy9Xn2KkEC&pg=PR53|accessdate=13 May 2013|year=2007|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-9370-7|page=liii}}</ref>
Pigafetta's ''Relatione del reame del Congo'' (A Report of the Kingdom of Congo and of the Surrounding Countries) 1591 was translated into [[English language|English]], [[Latin]] (as ''Regnum Congo''), [[French language|French]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and [[German language|German]]. In it Pigafetta explains that he was ordered by Pope Sixtus V to transcribe the account of Duarte Lopez, a Portuguese trader who had spent twelve years in the Congo. Lopez had hoped that the pope would give him support in his mission to the Congolese, but this was not forthcoming: he returned to Africa, and was not heard from again. Lopez's narrative gives a detailed account of his voyage on his uncle's ship, and the history and geography of the kingdom of Congo and its six administrative regions under the rule of its king (named by Lopez 'Don Alvarez'). The account demonstrates the extent of Portuguese exploration across West Africa in the sixteenth century, of which later explorers were unaware.

In 1608 Pigafetta published an [[Italian language|Italian]] version of the ''[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]]'' of [[Abraham Ortelius]].<ref name="Pigafetta2007">{{cite book|author=Antonio Pigafetta|editor=Theodore J. Cachey Jr.|title=The First Voyage Around the World, 1519–1522: An Account of Magellan's Expedition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mcgy9Xn2KkEC&pg=PR53|accessdate=13 May 2013|year=2007|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-9370-7|page=liii}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Pigafetta's ''Regnum Congo'' plays an important role in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s short story "[[The Picture in the House]]".<ref>[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ph.aspx The Picture in the House]</ref>


==Works==
==Works==
[[File:Pigafetta, Filippo – Discorso d'intorno all'historia della aguglia et alla ragione del muoverla, 1586 – BEIC 13280511.jpg|thumb|''Discorso d'intorno all'historia della aguglia et alla ragione del muoverla'', 1586 ]]
* (tr.) ''Le mechaniche'' by [[Guidobaldo del Monte]]. 1581.
* (tr.) ''Le mechaniche'' by [[Guidobaldo del Monte]]. 1581.
* {{Cite book|title=Discorso d'intorno all'historia della aguglia et alla ragione del muoverla|volume=|publisher=Bartolomeo Grassi|location=Roma|year=1586|language=it|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=13280511}}
* ''Discorso di M. Filippo Pigafetta d'intorno all'historia della aguglia, et alla ragione del muouerla'', 1586
* ''Discorso di M. Filippo Pigafetta d'intorno all'historia della aguglia, et alla ragione del muouerla'', 1586
* (tr.) ''Trattato Brieve dello Schierare in Ordinanza gli Eserciti et dell'apparecchiamento della guerra'' by [[Leo VI the Wise]], 1586.
* (tr.) ''Trattato Brieve dello Schierare in Ordinanza gli Eserciti et dell'apparecchiamento della guerra'' by [[Leo VI the Wise]], 1586.
Line 17: Line 25:


{{DEFAULTSORT:Pigafetta, Filippo}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pigafetta, Filippo}}
[[Category:People from Vicenza]]
[[Category:1533 births]]
[[Category:1533 births]]
[[Category:1604 deaths]]
[[Category:1604 deaths]]
[[Category:Italian mathematicians]]
[[Category:16th-century Italian mathematicians]]
[[Category:Italian geographers]]
[[Category:Italian geographers]]
[[Category:Italian explorers]]
[[Category:16th-century Italian explorers]]
[[Category:Translators to Italian]]
[[Category:Latin–Italian translators]]
[[Category:Translators from Latin]]
[[Category:17th-century Italian explorers]]

[[Category:People from Vicenza]]


{{geographer-stub}}
{{geographer-stub}}

Revision as of 04:08, 22 August 2024

Filippo Pigafetta (1533–1604) was an Italian mathematician and explorer.

Map of Vicenza country. From Filippo Pigafetta, Novam hanc et accuratissima Territorii Vicentini descriptionem, in Abraham Ortelius, Theatro del mondo, Anversa, 1608. Vicenza, Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana.

Pigafetta's Relatione del reame del Congo (A Report of the Kingdom of Congo and of the Surrounding Countries) 1591 was translated into English, Latin (as Regnum Congo), French, Dutch and German. In it Pigafetta explains that he was ordered by Pope Sixtus V to transcribe the account of Duarte Lopez, a Portuguese trader who had spent twelve years in the Congo. Lopez had hoped that the pope would give him support in his mission to the Congolese, but this was not forthcoming: he returned to Africa, and was not heard from again. Lopez's narrative gives a detailed account of his voyage on his uncle's ship, and the history and geography of the kingdom of Congo and its six administrative regions under the rule of its king (named by Lopez 'Don Alvarez'). The account demonstrates the extent of Portuguese exploration across West Africa in the sixteenth century, of which later explorers were unaware.

In 1608 Pigafetta published an Italian version of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius.[1]

Legacy

Pigafetta's Regnum Congo plays an important role in H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Picture in the House".[2]

Works

Discorso d'intorno all'historia della aguglia et alla ragione del muoverla, 1586
  • (tr.) Le mechaniche by Guidobaldo del Monte. 1581.
  • Discorso d'intorno all'historia della aguglia et alla ragione del muoverla (in Italian). Roma: Bartolomeo Grassi. 1586.
  • Discorso di M. Filippo Pigafetta d'intorno all'historia della aguglia, et alla ragione del muouerla, 1586
  • (tr.) Trattato Brieve dello Schierare in Ordinanza gli Eserciti et dell'apparecchiamento della guerra by Leo VI the Wise, 1586.
  • Relatione del Reame di Congo et delle circonvicine contrade tratta dalli scritti & ragionamenti di Odoardo Lopez Portoghese, 1591.
    • Translated by Abraham Hartwell as A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa : And of the countries that border rounde about the same. 1. Wherein is also shewed, that the two zones torrida & frigida, are not onely habitable, but inhabited, and very temperate, contrary to the opinion of the old philosophers. 2. That the blacke colour which is in the skinnes of the Ethiopians and Negroes &c. proceedeth not from the sunne. 3. And that the Riuer Nilus springeth not out of the mountains of the Moone, as hath been heretofore beleeued: together with the true cause of the rising and increasing thereof. 4. Besides the description of diuers plants, fishes and beastes, that are found in those countries. Drawen out of the writinges and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall, by Philippo Pigafetta, 1597.
  • (tr.) Compendio dal Theatro del Mondo by Abraham Ortelius. 1612. Translated from the Latin Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

References

  1. ^ Antonio Pigafetta (2007). Theodore J. Cachey Jr. (ed.). The First Voyage Around the World, 1519–1522: An Account of Magellan's Expedition. University of Toronto Press. p. liii. ISBN 978-0-8020-9370-7. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  2. ^ The Picture in the House