Los textos apócrifos atribuidos a Pigafetta, un análisis histórico y de contenido

Antonio Pigafetta's manuscript narrating the first circumnavigation disappeared along with all its copies a few years after the expedition returned to Seville, as did its own author. The various accounts that have come down to us attributed to Pigafetta are a small group of interrelated documents, lacking traceability and of unknown authorship, of which the only thing that is known for sure is that they do not come from Pigafetta's hand. Of these, the best known is the manuscript of the Ambrosian Library, of which different transcriptions have been made, the last one by Andrea Canova in 19993. In this article we will study all these texts and their interpretations, until we reach a reasoned conclusion about their first and common origin.