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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Page 56
... Maffei wrote of the mission workers being lost among " sterile bushes and ravaged forests . " 103 Ricci , who admired Maffei greatly , had no false modesty about drawing similar parallels , and in a letter to General Ac- quaviva he was ...
... Maffei wrote of the mission workers being lost among " sterile bushes and ravaged forests . " 103 Ricci , who admired Maffei greatly , had no false modesty about drawing similar parallels , and in a letter to General Ac- quaviva he was ...
Page 123
... Maffei's questions about Indian geography and politics , and had rather tartly observed that Maffei might do better to get his infor- mation from " an honorable Moor or an extremely intelligent Brah- man . " 102 But when he read Maffei's ...
... Maffei's questions about Indian geography and politics , and had rather tartly observed that Maffei might do better to get his infor- mation from " an honorable Moor or an extremely intelligent Brah- man . " 102 But when he read Maffei's ...
Page 284
... Maffei's narrative ( L'histoire , bk . 4 , ch . 3 , pp . 266-68 ) : and on the details of carrack life from Lisbon to Goa , Maffei , bk . 12 , ch . 2 , pp . 119-20 with Pasio's instructions , Doc . Ind . , 11/366 . Maffei had the ...
... Maffei's narrative ( L'histoire , bk . 4 , ch . 3 , pp . 266-68 ) : and on the details of carrack life from Lisbon to Goa , Maffei , bk . 12 , ch . 2 , pp . 119-20 with Pasio's instructions , Doc . Ind . , 11/366 . Maffei had the ...
Contents
THE APOSTLE IN THE WAVES | 59 |
THE HUIHUI | 93 |
THE ROAD TO EMMAUS | 128 |
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