The Memory Palace of Matteo RicciFrom the renowned historian and author of The Death of Woman Wang, a vivid and gripping account of the 16th-century missionary’s remarkable sojourn to Ming China In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming dynasty China. To capture the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life, Jonathan Spence relates his subject's experiences with several images that Ricci himself created—four images derived from the events in the Bible and others from a book on the art of memory that Ricci wrote in Chinese and circulated among members of the Ming dynasty elite. A rich and compelling narrative about a fascinating life, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci is also a significant work of global history, juxtaposing the world of Counter-Reformation Europe with that of Ming China. |
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... ship's officers , vari- ous male passengers , and miscellaneous slaves . The sailing date was too late for safety , as the crew and passengers must have known from the experiences of others , and though the St. Paul was one of the ships ...
... ship's officers , vari- ous male passengers , and miscellaneous slaves . The sailing date was too late for safety , as the crew and passengers must have known from the experiences of others , and though the St. Paul was one of the ships ...
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... ship's pilot ( along with those of the archer , globemaker , architect , and printer ) as an example of a man whose skill lay behind apparently random phenomena , but this may have been simply an echo of his Thomist reading . Ricci ...
... ship's pilot ( along with those of the archer , globemaker , architect , and printer ) as an example of a man whose skill lay behind apparently random phenomena , but this may have been simply an echo of his Thomist reading . Ricci ...
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... ship's complement reasoned that God saw no reason to have them celebrate the Assumption of the Virgin ( August 15 ) at sea , since they had already given her watery offerings on the day of her An- nunciation ( March 25 ) , on her ...
... ship's complement reasoned that God saw no reason to have them celebrate the Assumption of the Virgin ( August 15 ) at sea , since they had already given her watery offerings on the day of her An- nunciation ( March 25 ) , on her ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | vii |
A CHRONOLOGY | xiii |
BUILDING THE PALACE | 1 |
Copyright | |
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