Italian late-medieval Franciscan friar and missionary explorer
1286 CE
to 1331 CE
Odoric of Pordenone, OFM (Odorico Mattiussi or Mattiuzzi) is an Italian late-medieval Franciscan friar and missionary explorer.
His account of his visit to China is an important source for the account of John Mandeville; many of the incredible reports in Mandeville have proven to be garbled versions of Odoric's eyewitness descriptions.