The Memory Palace of Matteo RicciThis book is not only a rich and compelling narrative about Ricci's life in Italy, India, and China, but also a significant work of global history, in which intellectual, social, military, maritime, and religious themes are drawn together, juxtaposing the world of Counter-Reformation Europe with that of Ming China. |
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... Roman history by the second - century A.D. scholar Lucius Florus , which — thanks to the precise mind of a long- forgotten recording clerk - we know that Ricci had in his luggage when he registered at the Jesuit novitiate in Rome in ...
... Roman history by the second - century A.D. scholar Lucius Florus , which — thanks to the precise mind of a long- forgotten recording clerk - we know that Ricci had in his luggage when he registered at the Jesuit novitiate in Rome in ...
Page 208
... Romans would eye the women through specially designed holes cut in the roofs of their carriages , a kind of " stargazing " that a Roman preacher described , in an amusing wordplay which Montaigne appreciated , as " the making of ...
... Romans would eye the women through specially designed holes cut in the roofs of their carriages , a kind of " stargazing " that a Roman preacher described , in an amusing wordplay which Montaigne appreciated , as " the making of ...
Page 291
... Roman Sancta , p . 128 . 72. OS , pp . 48-49 , letter of Sept. 13 , 1584 , to Giambattista Roman . 73. Ibid . , p . 57 , letter of Oct. 20 , 1585 . 74. FR , 1/128 . On the earlier traditions concerning Muhammad , Apollo , and Termagant ...
... Roman Sancta , p . 128 . 72. OS , pp . 48-49 , letter of Sept. 13 , 1584 , to Giambattista Roman . 73. Ibid . , p . 57 , letter of Oct. 20 , 1585 . 74. FR , 1/128 . On the earlier traditions concerning Muhammad , Apollo , and Termagant ...
Contents
THE APOSTLE IN THE WAVES | 59 |
THE HUIHUI | 93 |
THE ROAD TO EMMAUS | 128 |
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