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    Giovanni de' Marignolli (Latin: Johannes Marignola; fl. 1338–53), variously anglicized as John of Marignolli or John of Florence, was a notable 14th-century...
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    John of Montecorvino, who was later succeeded by Giovanni de Marignolli. Other Europeans such as André de Longjumeau managed to reach the eastern borderlands...
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    Western travelers to Yuan dynasty China at that time, such as Giovanni de' Marignolli and Odoric of Pordenone, mentioned the Great Wall, and that while...
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    centuries, such as Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, William of Rubruck, Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone and Giovanni de' Marignolli, mentioned the Great...
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    Europeans who travelled to Khanbaliq during the Yuan dynasty, such as Giovanni de' Marignolli and Odoric of Pordenone, said nothing about the wall either. The...
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    of Bohemiae by Přibík Pulkava and in the chronicle compiled by Giovanni de' Marignolli. A notable theory of origin suggests the names of the early Přemysl...
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    Dumdadu Mongγol Ulus (the Middle Mongolian Empire). For example, Giovanni de' Marignolli, who visited Yuan dynasty in the 1340s, referred to Almaliq (the...
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    Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau. Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino...
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    And this it is which the poets have converted into a foot. — Giovanni de' Marignolli C. S. Lewis features monopods in the book The Voyage of the Dawn...
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    of the Italian Giovanni de' Marignolli, one of four chief envoys sent by Pope Benedict XII to Peking. 1401–1402: Travel of Payo Gómez de Sotomayor, first...
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  • XII.3. Giovanni de' Marignolli. Giovanni de' Marignolli (before 1290 – after 1353), an Italian traveler to China, also known as Jean de Marignolli. Chronicon...
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    Gozzolini William of Saliceto 14th century Manuel Chrysoloras Giovanni de' Marignolli Francesco Petrarca (also known as Petrarch) Coluccio Salutati 15th...
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  • G. Haw notes how Wood claims that the History of Yuan mentions Giovanni de Marignolli by name even though it mentions only the tributary gift that he...
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  • Odoric of Pordenone, ibn Battūta, Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Giovanni de' Marignolli, and Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, together with letters and reports...
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  • Cathay and the Way Thither, I, 98. Giovanni de' Marignolli, in Cathay and the Way Thither, II, 346. Dr. Deborah de Koning, PhD (2022), "Ravanisation":...
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    Catholic Church. Father Jordanus arrived in Sri Lanka in 1329 and Giovanni de Marignolli arrived as Papal Legate in 1348/49 to assist the Christians in the...
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    versions of the Mirabilia Urbis Romae, and the Chronica Boemorum of Giovanni de' Marignolli (1355) make Janus (the Roman deity) the fourth son of Noah, who...
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    Catholic Church in India (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    are documented and preserved in the diocesan archives). In 1347, Giovanni de Marignolli visited the shrine of St Thomas near the modern Madras, and then...
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    as William of Rubruck, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, André de Longjumeau, Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, Giovanni di Monte Corvino, and...
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    Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, and Sri Lanka. In 1347, Giovanni de' Marignolli visited Malabar. Another prominent Indian traveler was Joseph,...
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    included William of Rubruck, Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, Andrew of Longjumeau, Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de Marignolli, Giovanni di Monte Corvino, and...
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    1390s. Several contemporary observers, including the Papal Envoy Giovanni de' Marignolli, mention the murder of a Latin bishop in 1339 or 1340 by a Muslim...
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    missionaries worked in Almaliq in the 14th century as well, including Giovanni de' Marignolli. Like him, many Europeans in Medieval China stopped there while...
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    metropolitan. In 1338, the pope sent back the embassy headed by Giovanni de' Marignolli, who stayed at Beijing three or four years. They brought gifts...
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  • Giacomo Fenicio Roberto de Nobili John Marignolli These include: Jordan Catala Giovanni de' Marignolli alias John De Marignolli Roberto de Nobili St. Francis...
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  • to China after Giovanni de' Marignolli was sent as legate by the Papacy (in Beijing from 1342 to 1345).[citation needed] Fernão Pires de Andrade Jorge...
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  • as William of Rubruck, Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, Andrew of Longjumeau, Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de Marignolli, Giovanni di Monte Corvino, and...
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    25.3 & 25.4 to draft translation of Yu Huan's Weilüe Giovanni de Marignolli, "John De' Marignolli and His Recollections of Eastern Travel", in Cathay and...
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  • ruling families. He summoned the Italian priest and traveller Giovanni de' Marignolli to Prague and commissioned him to write a chronicle that would...
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    receiving tribute of cinnamon from other southern rulers. Giovanni de Marignolli Giovanni de' Marignolli, a notable traveller to the Far East in the 14th century...
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