Magellan, Ferdinand by Almo

Magellan, Ferdinand Most fearsome of all, the man who would destroy the very world the cartographers had drowned. In his time, by his compatriot and his own king, they treated him as renegade and transfuga, but now in Lisbon they proudly say “his ours”. One, or certainly most important explorer in history, was a faithful man trough which modesty arose. Fact that his Spanish sponsors never shared his sense of mission he found reason for …

…Pigafetta wrote:” In the midst of the sea, he was able to endure hunger better than we were. Most versed in nautical charts, he knew better that any other the true art of navigation, of which it is certain proof that he by his genius, and his intrepidity, without anyone giving him example, how to attempt the circuit of the globe which he had almost completed…The glory and achievement of Magellan will survive him.”