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Did the Mazaua First Mass historians ever talk to one another? - 3

English Plain And Simple

(2065th of a series)

As noted in last week's column (September 23), the first printed version of Antonio Pigafetta's Magellanic voyage chronicles appeared in Paris in 1525. It was a French extract from Pigafetta's Italian manuscript by Jacques Antoine Fabre that history scholars found 'incomplete and inaccurate,' 'not very good,' and 'unauthorized' for not giving formal credit to both its author and translator.