Riccoldo da Monte di Croce
✓ Source-basedrisingItalian missionary
Historical FiguresLived 1242 to 1320 · aged 78
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Riccoldo da Monte di Croce or Ricold of Monte Croce was an Italian Dominican friar, travel writer, missionary, and Christian apologist. He is most famous for his polemical works on Medieval Islam and the account of his missionary travels to Baghdad.
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Riccoldo da Monte di Croce and Pope Nicolas IV
Title page of Riccoldo's work published in Seville c.1500, showing a Christian friar preaching to Muslims
Bibliothèque nationale de France MS ar. 384, the Arabic manuscript of the Qur'an read by Riccoldo while he was writing his book Contra legem Saracenorum, with Riccoldo's annotations in LatinHistorical Figures born in the 1240s 6
About this person
Category
Historical Figures
Type
Historical Figure
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1242 to 1320 · aged 78
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11 languages
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