Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
Roman Catholic archbishop and traveller (1182-1252) · Religious Figures · Died at 70
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Something wrong?He walked into the Mongol court when most Europeans thought the steppe was the edge of the world, then came back and wrote it down - the first real Western account of the Khan's empire from the inside.
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Giovanni da Pian del Carpine was born around 1185 in medieval Italy and became a Franciscan friar. Dispatched as a diplomat and explorer, he journeyed deep into Mongol territory and entered the court of the Great Khan - among the first Europeans to do so. What he saw there became the earliest important Western description of North and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the vast Mongol dominion. In 1247 he was named Primate of Serbia, based in Antivari, a post he held until his death on 1 August 1252. His account opened a window onto a world the West had only feared from a distance.
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