AZZOLINO (Ascelinus, Aicelinus, Azelinus, Ezelinus). - A Lombard (from Cremona?), a Dominican, sent by Innocent IV to the "king of the Tartars." He set out from Lyons in March 1245 and probably went to Syria or Palestine, where he chose three other Dominicans as companions. In 1247 the mission reached Tiflis, where Friar Guicciardo da Cremona, residing in the Dominican convent of that city, joined it. On 24 May 1247 the envoys met a Mongol camp, to whose leader, Baigiunojan, they delivered the Pope's letters. Friar A. returned to Lyons in the summer of 1248 with two Tatar messengers, bearing to the Pope an edict of the great khan Güyük and a letter from Baigiu. Friar Simon of St-Quentin, one of A.'s companions, wrote an account of the journey, of which only fragments survive, inserted in the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais.
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Azzolino (Ascelinus, Aicelinus, Azelinus, Ezelinus)
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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 612.
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Loenertz, Raimondo. “Azzolino (Ascelinus, aicelinus, azelinus, ezelinus).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 612. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/azzolino-ascelinus-aicelinus-azelinus-ezelinus.
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Loenertz, Raimondo. “Azzolino (Ascelinus, aicelinus, azelinus, ezelinus).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 612. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/azzolino-ascelinus-aicelinus-azelinus-ezelinus.
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author = {Loenertz, Raimondo},
title = {Azzolino (Ascelinus, aicelinus, azelinus, ezelinus)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {612},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/azzolino-ascelinus-aicelinus-azelinus-ezelinus}
}
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