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Giovanni was born, probably before 1290, to the noble Florentine family of the Marignolli. The family is long extinct, but the Via de' Cerretani, a street near the cathedral, formerly bore their name. Giovanni received his habit at the Franciscan basilica of Santa Croce at a young age.
Mar 25, 2024 · Giovanni dei Marignolli (born before 1290, Florence [Italy]) was a Franciscan friar and one of four legates sent to the court of the Mongol emperor of China, Togon-Temür, at Khanbaliq (Beijing). Marignolli’s notes on the journey, though fragmentary, contain vivid descriptions that established him among the notable travelers to the Far East ...
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This Franciscan Friar of aristocratic Florentine lineage is best known to us under the name John Marignolli, sometimes Giovanni de' Marignola, and his importance for the history of South-East Asia lies in the fact that, like Marco Polo, he made his return voyage from China not by the Central Asian overland route again but by sea through the ...
Giovanni De’ Marignolli. Marignolli, GIOVANNI DE’, b. at Florence about 1290; place and date of death unknown. When quite a youth he received the Franciscan habit at the convent of Santa Croce, Florence; later on, as he himself tells us, he held the chair of theology at the University of Bologna. Nothing more is known of his religious life ...
Giovanni De Marignolli - Encyclopedia. GIOVANNI DE' MARIGNOLLI, a notable traveller to the Far East in the 14th century, born probably before 1290, and sprung from a noble family in Florence. The family is long extinct, but a street near the cathedral (Via de' Cerretani) formerly bore the name of the Marignolli.
Oct 4, 2023 · 103669 Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) — Giovanni de' Marignolli Girolamo Golubovich Born at Florence about 1290; place and date of death unknown. When quite a youth he received the Franciscan habit at the convent of Santa Croce, Florence; later on, as he himself tells us, he held the chair of theology at the University of Bologna.
Paolo Evangelisti, MARIGNOLLI, Giovanni de’, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 70, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2008. (FR) Bibliografia su Giovanni de' Marignolli, su Les Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge. (EN) Giovanni de' Marignolli, in Catholic Encyclopedia, Robert Appleton Company.
