Mongolia/ Italy: A profile of John of Montecorvino who was sent by the pope in 1291 to negotiate with Kublai Khan.

John of Montecorvino, or Giovanni da Montecorvino in Italian (1246 – 1328), was an Italian Franciscan missionary, traveler and statesman, founder of the earliest Roman Catholic missions in India and China, archbishop of Peking, and Patriarch of the Orient.

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