Odoric of pordenone biography of donald

  • This article revisits one of the texts associated with the fourteenth-century spread of Franciscan mission across Eurasia, the account of the travels of Odoric.
  • Franciscan missionary and traveler.
  • Odoric of Pordenone (/85 – ), a Franciscan missionary of presumed Czech origin, born (according to the tradition) at Villanova near Pordenone (Friuli.

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    Odoric, a Franciscan monk from northeastern Italy, spent much of the early 14th century traveling throughout Asia. His adventures provided one of the most important Western accounts of life and culture in what is present-day Iran, India, Indonesia, China, Nepal, and Russia. Setting off only twenty years after Marco Polo's historic trip to the East, Odoric was the only religious traveler to the East whose voyage was recorded, making his account one of unparalleled importance for scholars and show more historians. Interestingly, Odoric noted the religious and cultural customs of the places he visited, treating their practices with tolerance, respect, and curiosity. Odoric frequently took pains to tell of spectacular thingsumountains of salt, impenetrable deserts, mice as big as dogs, trees that produced bread, magic fish, sensational pearls, gigantic tortoises, men with the head of a dog, hens covered in wool, and women equipped with fangsumaking this fanta

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    Odoric of Pordenone

    William of Rubruck holds the distinction of being the first European to venture into Greater Tibet in the midth century, followed by Marco Polo 20 years later. There was then a gap of about 50 years until an Italian Franciscan friar, Odoric of Pordenone () reputedly entered Tibet.

    After residing in Beijing for three years, Odoric, "listening only to the ardour of his zeal for the propagation of the faith, resolved to go even further, and seek for souls whom he might gain over to Jesus Christ Having traversed the vast province of Gansu, he got as far as the capital of Tibet."

    Historians disagree as to whether Odoric made it all the way to Lhasa (although some have confidently asserted he arrived there in ), or if his writings were based on stories told to him by other travelers. After returning to Italy, he wrote about the capital of Tibet, saying, "It is in this city that the person dwells who is like the Po

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    Odoric of Pordenone and His konto on the orientalium partium in the Light of Manuscripts

    ANTHROPOLOGIA INTEGRA 2//2 ČASOPIS PRO OBECNOU ANTROPOLOGII A PŘÍBUZNÉ OBORY JOURNAL FOR GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND RELATED DISCIPLINES Odoric of Pordenone and His Account on the orientalium partium in the Light of Manuscripts Vladimír Liščák Department of East Asia, Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences, Pod Vodárenskou věží 4, 08 Praha 8 Received 18 February ; accepted 10 May ODORIK Z PORDENONE A JEHO ZPRÁVA O „VÝCHODNÍCH KRAJÍCH SVĚTA“ VE SVĚTLE RUKOPISŮ ABSTRAKT Odorik z Pordenone (asi /–), františkánský misionář, patří k nejdůležitějším osobám cestujícím v / století do Číny. Četné kopie Odorikova cestopisu (jak původního textu, tak verzí ve francouzštině, italštině, němčině apod.), které se dochovaly do naší doby, hlavně ze století, ukazují, jak si cestopis rychle získal popularitu v širokém měřítku. Mezi latinskými rukopisy můžeme rozeznat šest základních typů redakcí Odorikova cestopis