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Giovanni de Marignolli, auch Johannes von Marignola (* um 1290 in Florenz, Italien; † zwischen 1357 und März 1359 in Prag oder Bratislava), war ein italienischer Franziskaner, Asien-Missionar, Päpstlicher Legat und Bischof
Giovanni de' Marignolli (Latin: Johannes Marignola; fl. 1338–53), variously anglicized as John of Marignolli or John of Florence, was a notable 14th-century Catholic European traveller to medieval China and India.
Giovanni dei Marignolli 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Giovanni de' Marignolli è stato un missionario e vescovo cattolico italiano, frate minore francescano.
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 ...
Das späte Mittelalter. Index viatorum extra Europam saec. XIII-XVIII. Giovanni de Marignolli. Dates of travel: 1338-1353. Areas visited: Crimea, Afghanistan, Gobi desert, Bejing, India, Quilon, Palestine. Birth / Death: c. 1290 / 1357-1359. City of Origin / Family: (probably) Florence. Report/Manuscript:
Giovanni de' Marignolli. John of Marignolli. Franciscan and papal emissary to the emperor of China. Franciscan Order. Beijing. Born in Florence, Italy. John of Marignolli undertook the last-known Western mission to eastern Asia before the 16th c.
