The less correct spelling Oderic di Perdone also occurs. Some give his birthdate as ca. 1274, 1276, or 1286. There are a number of editions and translations of his travel account. He departed from Venice sometime between 1316 and 1318 and did not return to Europe until 1330. Accompanying him on his journeys was an Irishman called Friar James.
Paolo Chiesa, The Travels of Friar Odoric: A 14th-Century Journal of the Blessed Odoric of Pordenone, William B. Eerdmans (2001), in 173 pages. This is evidently just extracted from the Henry Yule translation, and Chiesa writes the lengthy introduction.
Le Voyage en Asie d'Odoric de Pordenone, Traduit par Jean le Long, OSB, Itinerarie de la Peregrinacion et du voyaige (1351), critical edition by Alvise Andreose and Phillipe Ménard, Librarie Droz (Geneva 2010), in 453 pages. Rev. by T.H. Barrett.
H. Cordier, Les voyages en Asie au XIVe siècle du bienheureux frère Odoric de Pordenone (Paris 1891).
Reichert Folker, Odorico da Pordenone and the European Perception of Chinese Beauty in the Middle Ages, Journal of Medieval History, vol. 25, no. 4 (1999), pp. 339-355.
Berthold Laufer, Was Odoric of Pordenone Ever in Tibet? T'oung Pao, vol. 15 (1914), pp. 405-418.
A.C. Moule, A Life of Odoric of Pordenone, T'oung Pao, vol. 20 (1920), pp. 275-290.
Paul Pelliot, Le nom Turc du vin dans Odoric de Pordenone, T'oung Pao, vol. 15 (1914), pp. 448-453.
G. Pullé, Viaggio del Beato Odorico da Pordenone (Milano 1931). He may have traveled to Tibet, from Peking, in around 1325. This is very much disputed. The 'Tibet' he visited could have been anything from Gansu to Ladakh.
Konrad Steckels deutsche Übertragung der Reise nach China des Odorico de Pordenone (mit lat. Originaltext), Erich Schmidt Verlag (Berlin 1968).
Sir Henry Yule, The Travels of Friar Odoric, William B. Eerdmans (Grand Rapids 2002).
"Odoric Forojuliensis." This says he traveled over Tibet in the year 1330. E.H. Parker, The Preaching of the Gospel in Tibet, The China Review, vol. 18, no. 5 (March 1890), pp. 279-284, at p.
