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- Unsuccessful, yet with stories enough to last a lifetime, Carpini began his journey home in November 1246.
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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]
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 ...
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...
On the other hand, Giovanni di Plano Carpini’s legation was a brilliant success. The Franciscan is one of the most interesting and important personalities of his order; his Historia Mongalorum represents a source of inestimable value on Medieval Asia and the Mongols.
- Lorenzo Pubblici
Giovanni de Piano Carpini (jōvän´nē dā pyä´nō kärpē´nē), c.1180–1252, Italian traveler and Franciscan monk, b. Pian del Carpini (now Piano della Magione), Umbria. He was a companion of St. Francis of Assisi and spread Franciscan teachings in Germany and Spain.
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.
