Talk:Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
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Carpini was the first known Christian emissary to China for several hundred years. However, it should be noted that the Nestorian Christians dispatched missions eastwards from Syria, the first reaching China around 635. They stayed for several centuries until Tang Wu Zong banished Christianity, thinking it a Buddhist variant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorians http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/781nestorian.html http://www.nestorian.org/the_nestorians_in_china___the_.html
[edit] name
In Italy the most common name is Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
[edit] Move to Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
Pian del Carpini is wrong. Latin name Joannes de Plano Carpini means John from Plain of the Hornbeam: Carpini is genitive singular of carpinus, carpini. Correct Italian translation is Pian(o) del Carpine, where carpine is singular, opposed to carpini which is plural. If there are no objections, I'm going to move the page soon. GhePeU 10:21, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cause of death
- The date of his death may be fixed, with the help of the Franciscan Martyrology and other authorities, as 1 August 1252; hence it is clear that Joannes did not long survive the hardships of his journey.
He died 72-years-old, an advanced age for a man of his time. I do not find clear that his death five full years after the travel was caused by the travel. On the contrary, he seems quite enduring and has a long life after the toil of the travel.
