Giovanni da Pian del Carpine

Giovanni da Pian del Carpine meeting with The Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
Carpine's great journey to the East; his route is indicated, railroad track style, in dark blue

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] He was the author of the earliest important Western account of northern and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and other regions of the Mongol dominion.[4] He served as the Primate of Serbia, based in Antivari, from 1247 to 1252.[5]

  1. ^ a b Ostrowski 1993, p. 98.
  2. ^ Schels, P.C.A. "Johannes de Plano Carpini". Mittelalter-Lexikon (in German). Retrieved 4 April 2021. um 1185
  3. ^ Montalbano, Kathryn A. (2015). "Misunderstanding the Mongols: Intercultural Communication in Three Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Travel Accounts". Information & Culture. 50 (4): 588–610. doi:10.7560/IC50406. S2CID 146580919.
  4. ^ Yule & Beazley 1911, p. 397.
  5. ^ Yule & Beazley 1911, p. 398.