Juan Serrano
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For the Spanish flamenco guitarist, see Juan Serrano (Flamenco).
Juan Serrano was a sixteenth century navigator who sailed with Ferdinand Magellan during the first circumnavigation of the world (1517-1519). Of Portuguese origin, Serrano was brother or cousin to Francisco Serrão, who was residing in the Spice Islands when the voyage began and whom Magellan hoped to meet (both died before this occurred).
Captain of the ship Santiago, Serrano was involved in the events that led to a massacre on Cebu allegedly instigated by Enrique de Malacca but we cannot ascertained this by Pigafetta accounts alone.
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- Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages 1492-1616 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).
