Odoric of Pordenone: Quick Facts

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Giovanni dei Marignolli

Italian clergyman

Marco Polo

Italian explorer

Giovanni da Pian del Carpini

Franciscan author

Lodovico de Varthema

Italian adventurer

Niccolò dei Conti

Italian merchant

Pietro della Valle

Italian traveler and writer

Giorgio Manganelli

Italian author

Emilio Cecchi

Italian essayist and critic

Obadiah of Bertinoro

Italian rabbi and author

Giovanni Battista Ramusio

Italian geographer and author

Luca Pacioli

Italian mathematician

St. Francis of Assisi

Italian saint

Saint Bonaventure

Italian theologian

Sixtus IV

pope

Sixtus V

pope

Nicholas IV

pope

Salimbene Di Adam

Italian historian

Giovanni da Montecorvino

Franciscan missionary

Elias Of Cortona

Franciscan monk

Yevgeny Petrov

Soviet humorist