Filippo Pigafetta, who lived from 1533 to 1604, was a Venetian mathematician and explorer. He is best known for the Relatione del reame del Congo of 1591, a report on the Kingdom of Congo and its surrounding countries that was translated into English, Latin, French, Dutch and German. In it he explains that Pope Sixtus V ordered him to transcribe the account of Duarte Lopez, a Portuguese trader who had spent twelve years in the Congo, and the narrative describes the kingdom's history, geography and six administrative regions. The work shows the extent of Portuguese exploration across West Central Africa. In 1608 he also published an Italian version of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius.
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