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	Giovanni da Pian del Carpine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, or John of Plano Carpini or Joannes de Plano (c.
		He appears to have been a native of Umbria, where a place formerly called Pian del Carpine, but now Piano della Magione, stands near Perugia, on the road to Cortona.
		He was one of the companions and disciples of his countryman Saint Francis of Assisi, and from sundry indications can hardly have been younger than the latter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giovanni_da_Pian_del_Carpini (1341 words)

	First Europeans Traveled to Khan's Court
		Carpini left Lyon with another Franciscan (Benedict of Poland) as his companion and interpreter in April 1245, carrying a letter from the Pope.
		Carpini was the first European since 900 AD on record as having traveled east of Baghdad and returned to tell the tale.
		Soon after Carpini's return, Louis IX of France was in Cyprus organizing the disastrous Sixth Crusade against the Saracens (Mamelukes) in Egypt, when he received an envoy from the Mongol commanding general at Tabriz in Persia.
	www.silk-road.com /artl/carrub.shtml (1915 words)

	Vinland map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a description of the history and manners of the Mongols that appears to be an early version of the memoir of Giovanni da Pian del Carpini (q.v.
		Carpini went on to write a more robust account of his travels, but the shorter "Tartar Relation" survived until the 15th century by being included as an addendum to a volume of Vincent of Beauvais's encyclopedic "Historical Mirror" (Speculum historiale).
		The map first came to light in 1957 and was donated with funds from Paul Mellon to its current owner, Yale University, in 1965; The New York Times reported that insurers valued the map at $25 million.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vinland_map (1166 words)

	Giovanni da Pian del Carpini -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was one of the companions and disciples of his countryman St ((Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226)) Francis of Assisi, and from sundry indications can hardly have been younger than the latter.
		A draft for the Historia, perhaps based on Carpini's lectures, appeared on the art market in the 1960s and was purchased by (A university in Connecticut) Yale University.
		Carpini was not only an old man when he went cheerfully upon this mission, but was, as we know from accidental evidence in the annals of his order, a fat and heavy man (vir gravis et corpulentus), insomuch that during his preachings in Germany he was fain, contrary to Franciscan precedent, to ride a donkey.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/giovanni_da_pian_del_carpini.htm (906 words)

	Giovanni da Pian del Carpini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, or John of Plano Carpini or Joannes de Plano (c.
		Carpini started from Lyons, where the pope then resided, on Easter day (April 16, 1245), accompanied by another friar, one Stephen of Bohemia, who broke down at Kanev near Kiev, and was left behind.
		Upon the last-named stood the Ordu or camp of Batu, the famous conqueror of eastern Europe, and the supreme Mongol commander on the western frontiers of the empire, as well as one of the most senior princes of the house of Genghis Khan.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Giovanni-da-Pian-del-Carpini.htm (1287 words)

	Franciscan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Among the most important Franciscans are its founder, Francis, as well as Anthony of Padua, Bonaventure, John Duns Scotus, Roger Bacon, Alexander of Hales, William of Ockham, and Giovanni da Pian del Carpini.
		or Clarenini, an association of hermits established on the river Clareno in the march of Ancona by Angelo da Clareno after the suppression of the Franciscan Celestines by Boniface VIII.
		The early spiritual poetry of Italy was inspired by Francis himself, who was followed by Thomas of Celano, Bonaventura, and Jacopone da Todi; and in a certain sense even Dante may be included within the sphere of Franciscan influence (cf.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Minorites (4086 words)

	Mongolia Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The group was led by the Franciscan friar “Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini” or “John Of Plano Carpini” as he is known in English.
		Carpini was provincial of the Franciscan Order at Cologne and was an excellent choice as Europe's first envoy to the East.
		It is almost impossible to say for sure the exact journey that Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini took, however using his own reports we have planned our route to reproduce his route as faithfully as possible.
	www.arcangeloni.com /new/mongolia_2004.shtml (1279 words)

	vinland map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The map was discovered bound together with a codex, Historia Tartorum ("Description of the Tartars," sometimes referred to as the 'Tartar Relation') The Historia is a manuscript of undoubted authenticity that was at some point bound with the Vinland Map.
		Carpini went on to write a fuller account of his travels, but the shorter "Tartar Relation" survived until the 15th century by being included as addendum to a volume of Vincent of Beauvais's encyclopedic "Historical Mirror" (Speculum historiale).
		The map was first found in 1958 and was donated to its current owner Yale University in 1965; it is valued at around $18 million.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Vinland_map.html (896 words)

	Additional Reading (from Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Probably a pupil of Bartolomeo Montagna, a minor painter of Vicenza, he was later influenced by the poetic and colouristically sensitive style of Giovanni Bellini, the great Venetian master of the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
		An Italian artist in all but birth, Giovanni da Bologna was the greatest Mannerist sculptor in Italy during the last quarter of the 16th century.
		His output is of uniformly high quality, and his compositions have served as examples of excellence in the writing of counterpoint for generations of students of musical composition.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-2722 (684 words)

	Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Born in the village of Pian del Carpini near Perugia in Tuscany, Carpini was the same age as St. Francis of Assisi, and when the latter formed the Franciscan order of monks in 1209, Carpini became one of its first members.
		Carpini was surprised to find Batu little-impressed by the fact he had come on a mission from the pope, and the Mongols'; treatment of the delegation was far from gracious.
	www.bookrags.com /history/sciencehistory/giovanni-da-pian-del-carpini-scit-021 (765 words)

	Independent, The (London): Travel: Time Travellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pope Innocent IV dispatched Carpini in 1245 as an envoy to the court of the Great Khan of the Mongols, hoping to convert him to Christianity or, at least, to form an alliance.
		He was killed in the Philippines and Juan Sebastian del Cano completed the Victoria's circumnavigation of the globe in September 1522.
		He found that Tierra del Fuego was an island, unattached to Terra Australis, then plundered ports in Chile and Lima, claiming California as New Albion.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991226/ai_n14272510 (1452 words)

	Untitled Document
		Carpini returned confident that the Emperor was about to become a Christian; Ruysbroeck told of the city in Cathay “having walls of silver and towers of gold”; he had not seen it but had been “credibly informed” of it.
		Giovanni da Montecorvino, a Franciscan friar from Italy, became archbishop of Peking and lived in China from 1294 to 1328.
		In 1487, a Portuguese emissary, Pêro da Covilhã, successfully followed the first route; but, on returning to Cairo, he reported that, in order to travel to India, the Portuguese “could navigate by their coasts and the seas of Guinea.” In the same year another Portuguese navigator, Bartolomeu Dias, found encouraging evidence that this was so.
	www.history.upenn.edu /coursepages/hist086/material/Exploration.html (8846 words)

	Encyclopedia: Yuan Dynasty
		Events Siege of Rostock ends Births June 16 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (died 1375) August 1 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (died 1364) August 13 - Aradia de Toscano, female messianic figure in Italian witchcraft Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian law professor (died 1357) Deaths August 24 - Henry VII, Emperor of the Holy...
		The works of John of Plano Carpini and William of Rubruck also provided early descriptions of the Mongols to the West.
		Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, or John of Plano Carpini or Joannes de Plano (??-1252) was one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan of Mongol Empire and the author of the earliest important Western work on northern and central Asia, Russian Europe, and other...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yuan-Dynasty (8089 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Liber Tartarorum
		Giovanni da Pian del Carpini (?-1252) was one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan of Mongol Empire and the author of the earliest important Western work on northern and central Asia, Russia, Europe and other regions of mongol dominion.
		And then we have the mongols (who were the real people that Carpini visited) called in her book tatars.
		Although Carpini didn't realise that fact, that type of mistakes are common in nearly all the world.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3784&PN=1 (711 words)

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		In April 1245 the pope sent Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini on an extraordinary mission.
		Carpini's long journey was the first papal attempt to contact distant non-Christian rulers and fit in well with Innocent's convictions.
		Federico III legislatore del Regno di Sicilia nell'Europa del Duecento: Per una storia comparata delle codificazione europee, ed.
	faculty.cua.edu /pennington/InnocentIVBiography.htm (1932 words)

	ipedia.com: Giovanni da Pian del Carpini Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, or John of Plano Carpini or Joannes de Plano was one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan.
		Carpini was a Franciscan monk who was sent by Pope Innoc...
		Giovanni da Pian del Carpini Article - ipedia.com
	www.ipedia.com /giovanni_da_pian_del_carpini.html (253 words)

	Carpini, Giovanni da Pian del (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Carpini, Giovanni da Pian del, b 1182 in Umbria, Italy, d 1 August 1252.
		On his way through Ukraine in 1245 and 1247 he received aid from
		The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini (1903; repr 1967)
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/C/A/CarpiniGiovannidaPiandel.htm (70 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Mandeville
		A good deal about the manners and customs of the Tatars is demonstrably derived from the famous work of the Franciscan Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, who went as the pope's ambassador to the Tatars in 1245-1247; but Dr Warner considers that the immediate source for Mandeville was the Speculum historiale of Vincent de Beauvais.
		The account of Prester John is taken from the famous Epistle of that imaginary potentate, which was so widely diffused in the 13th century, and created that renown which made it incumbent on every traveller in Asia to find some new tale to tell of him.
		From the treatise on herbs a passage is quoted asserting it to have been composed in 1357 in honour of the author's natural lord, Edward, king of England.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Jehan_de_Mandeville (3130 words)

	Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini Travels to Mongolia History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		china · asia · the pope · the mongols ·; giovanni · mongolia · caspian sea · characterization · pope innocent · tartars · central china · western europeans · china sea · pian · traditional migration
		It is difficult to separate the historical facts from propaganda, but a Westerner named Giovanni da Pian del Carpini wrote an excellent firsthand account of the Mongols called History of the Mongols Whom We Call the Tartars (1247).
		However, Mongols exhibit a vast range of physical characteristics and the term should be taken as a group of people bound together by a common language and history.
	www.bookrags.com /history/sciencehistory/giovanni-da-pian-del-carpini-travel-scit-021 (356 words)

	Exploration in Texas Chapter
		Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, in 1245 to 1247, traveled to the Mongol empire both as a political spy and Catholic missionary.
		Carpini’s Liber Tartarorum (Book of the Tartars) was known in manuscript form in Europe and printed in summary form by 1473.
		His geography is second only to William of Rubruquis (Rubrouck), who made a similar journey after Carpini.
	www.texancultures.utsa.edu /publications/exploration/chapterten.htm (3199 words)

	Pian - Pian del Re - per la selezione dell'Alano Tedesco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pian - Pian del Re - per la selezione dell'Alano Tedesco
		The "wuxia pian," or film of martial chivalry, is rooted in a mythical Cantonese wuxia pian of the 1950s and early 1960s emphasized magic and fantasy.
		Allevamento Pian del Re - per la selezione dell'Alano Tedesco arlecchino, nero, fulvo e tigrato.
	www.listhunt.com /lht/pian.html (148 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Franciscans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thus it was more a propositum vitae, a life project, than a rule as traditionally understood.
		The attempted reconstruction by Muller ascribes to it too extensive a content, though Sabatier goes too far in the other direction when he limits it to these three sayings of Christ, which, according to Tommaso da Celano, formed the kernel of the rule, surrounded by certain other more detailed prescriptions.
		Sabatier's theory that these were gradual accretions, depending especially on decisions of the yearly general chapter, needs further evidence to confirm it although Oktavian Schmucki has discerned definite stages in the development of the 1221 Rule.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Franciscans (4761 words)

	Prester John Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The rise of the Mongol Empire gave western Christians the opportunity to visit lands they had never seen before.
		The belief that a lost Nestorian kingdom existed in the east, or at least that the Crusader States' salvation depended on an alliance with an Eastern monarch, accounts for the numerous Christian ambassadors and missionaries sent to Mongols, such as the Franciscan Giovanni da Pian del Carpini in 1245 and William of Rubruck in 1253.
		The link between Prester John and Genghis Khan was elaborated upon at this time as the Prester became identified with Genghis' foster father, Wang Khan Toghrul of the Kerait.
	popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Prester_John (2303 words)

	Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Franciscan friar, first noteworthy European traveller in the Mongol Empire, to which he was sent on a formal mission by Pope Innocent IV.
		Giovanni was a contemporary and disciple of St. Francis of Assisi.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036888?&query=giovanni (64 words)

	Marco Polo - Beijing - Travel to China
		Marco Polo is also believed to have described a bridge that was the site of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, a battle that marked the beginning of the Japanese invasion of north central China in World War II.
		Although the Polos were by no means the first Europeans to reach China overland (see for example Giovanni da Pian del Carpini), thanks to Marco's book their trip was the first to be widely known, and the best-documented until then.
		Legend has it that Marco Polo introduced to Italy some products from China, including ice cream, the pi?ata and pasta, especially spaghetti.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Marco_Polo (1214 words)

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