Leone Pancaldo An Italian on Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition

Nunziatella Alessandrini; Gaetano Sabatini

doi:10.7410/1690

Nunziatella Alessandrini Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Gaetano Sabatini CNR - Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea

Keywords: Leone Pancaldo, Fernão de Magalhães, Savona, Buenos Aires

Abstract

The aim of the contribution presented here is to systematize the articulated experiential journey of Leone Pancaldo, who embarked as a sailor on the ship Trinidad which, along with four other vessels led by Fernão de Magalhães, left the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 20, 1519. From the diverse primary sources, some of which are little known, emerge the depiction of a man that, due to the fact he was born in the Ligurian city of Savona, had an unusual personality, a strong knowledge in trading and good navigation skills.

O contributo que aqui se apresenta visa sistematizar o articulado percurso vivencial de Leone Pancaldo, embarcado como marinheiro na nau Trinidad que, juntamente com outros quatro navios chefiados por Fernão de Magalhães, deixou, a 20 de Setembro de 1519, o porto de Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Das numerosas fontes documentais, algumas das quais pouco conhecidas, ressalta a figura dum homem com uma personalidade invulgar, forte dos conhecimentos ligados ao comércio e à navegação que lhe provinham da sua origem na cidade de Savona na Ligúria.

Author Biographies

Nunziatella Alessandrini, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Nunziatella Alessandrini has a PhD in Modern History from the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon. She is researcher at CHAM-Humanities Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she coordinates the research group “Social, economic and political dynamics”. She is an Associate Member of the Maritime History Class of the Lisbon Navy Academy, and is the Director of the Historical Archive of the Church of Our Lady in Lisbona. For her work, she was honoured in 2022 with the Ufficiale della Stella d’Italia award by the President of the Italian Republic.

Gaetano Sabatini, CNR - Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea

Gaetano Sabatini, Director of the CNR - ISEM, Institute for the History of Mediterranean Europe, is Professor of Economic History at the Roma Tre University and Associate Researcher at the CHAM, Centro de Humanidades of the Nova University of Lisbon. He is an expert in the history of finance in the modern and contemporary period, with special reference to the Mediterranean area and the Ibero-American world. He is editor of “The Journal of European Economic History”. Among his most recent works: Paper, Finance and Semiotics. The Symbolic Economy of Knowledge in the Early Modern Mediterranean, with J.M. Pérez Fernández, in “The Journal of European Economic History”, vol. II (2023), no. 2, pp. 11-31.