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The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six CenturiesMain MenuOrientation to ProjectPath One: 1122-1235Path Two: 1236-1310 ADPath Three : 1311-1460 ADPath Four : 1461-1520 ADPath Five: 1521-1699 ADPath Six: 1700-1800 ADChristopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f Global Middle Ages
Giovanni da Carignano
12015-06-18T14:25:10-07:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f52818image_header2023-11-21T09:48:23-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fBorn in Genoa, Giovanni da Carignano (1250-1329) was a rector and later a priest turned famed cartographer. He is known as the first European to accurately plot Ethiopia on a map, as well as the first European to locate the kingdom of Prester John in Ethiopia. Additionally, he is famous for providing the only historical evidence of the 1306 Ethiopian mission that arrived in Rome.
Carignano produced a portolan chart and commentary, both of which are now lost, the former more recently than the latter. Carignano's lost portolan map, which survives only in pre-WWII photographs, is signed "Presbiter Johannes Rector sancti Marci de portu Ianue me fecit."
Salvadore (p. 1) notes that his appointment in 1291 to the position of rector at San Marco al Molo, located in the Madraccio, Genoa's old port, provided Giovanni with a congregation of mercantile seafarers who likely shared stories of their travels.
of the San Marco Church in Genoa.
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12015-05-17T12:25:05-07:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fMap 3.1 : Author Origins and Travel (1311-1460)Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com19plain2023-11-22T15:09:06-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f
1media/Ortelius.jpg2016-07-16T11:07:30-07:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fCartographers of the Prester John LegendChristopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com4image_header2016-07-26T18:22:30-07:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f
