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Jul 28, 2024 · Giovanni da Pian del Carpini (born c. 1180, Pian del Carpine?, near Perugia, Umbria [Italy]—died August 1, 1252, Antivari [Bar], Dalmatia?) was a Franciscan friar, the first noteworthy European traveler in the Mongol empire, to which he was sent on a formal mission by Pope Innocent IV.
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine OFM (or Carpini; Latin: Iohannes de Plano Carpini,[1] anglicised as John of Plano Carpini; [1] c. 1185 – 1 August 1252 [2]) was a medieval Italian diplomat, Catholic archbishop, explorer and one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. [3]
Aug 1, 2024 · John of Plano Carpini, also known as Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, was a Franciscan friar and one of the first Europeans to reach the court of the Great Khan, Güyük Khan, in the 13th century.
Long before Marco Polo (1254-1324), there was Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, an Italian priest sent by Pope Innocent IV on the first European mission to the court of the Mongol's Great Khan. Two years before Polo was born, Carpini returned from a journey that had taken him to many of the same far eastern territories later visited by the Venetian ...
This article is the first part of a wider project that aims to reconstruct the perception and the representation of the Mongols in the Western missionaries’ accounts of the 13th century. The first text analyzed is Giovanni di Plano Carpini’s Historia.
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Giovanni de Plano Carpini was a 13th-century Italian Franciscan friar who was sent on a mission to the Mongol Empire by Pope Innocent IV. He led an expedition to the Mongol Empire in 1245 and was one of the first Europeans to enter the realm and make contact with the Mongol Khans.
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Mar 26, 2020 · This article considers the first four chapters of Giovanni di Plano Carpini’s Historia Mongalorum, an extraordinarily important account written by the Umbrian Franciscan Friar after his journey...
