These Precolonial Filipino Words Recorded by Pigafetta Are Still Used Today
By Mario Alvaro Limos, Esquire Philippines Five hundred years ago, Antonio Pigafetta preserved snapshots of the lives and culture of the precolonial Filipinos. Pigafetta was an Italian scholar and explorer who chronicled the first circumnavigation of the world led by Ferdinand Magellan. The voyage was so significant because, finally, it proved the world was not…