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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... eunuch could speed one's passage past lock after lock where normally one might pay massive fees and still be kept waiting four or five days . Ricci recounted how he and a fellow Jesuit once rented cabin space from a eunuch on a cargo ...
... eunuch could speed one's passage past lock after lock where normally one might pay massive fees and still be kept waiting four or five days . Ricci recounted how he and a fellow Jesuit once rented cabin space from a eunuch on a cargo ...
Page 214
... eunuchs , and here again he had a split view of the situa- tion , as one might expect from someone who read the Bible with care . For in the book of Daniel ( 1 : 3-4 ) had not Nebuchadnezzar called on his chief eunuch to select from the ...
... eunuchs , and here again he had a split view of the situa- tion , as one might expect from someone who read the Bible with care . For in the book of Daniel ( 1 : 3-4 ) had not Nebuchadnezzar called on his chief eunuch to select from the ...
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... eunuch Ma Tang , who had emerged by the 1590s as one of the most powerful figures in the coun- try - prominent ... Eunuchs were at the forefront of at least three major crises during Ricci's residence in China , to all of which he ...
... eunuch Ma Tang , who had emerged by the 1590s as one of the most powerful figures in the coun- try - prominent ... Eunuchs were at the forefront of at least three major crises during Ricci's residence in China , to all of which he ...
Contents
THE APOSTLE IN THE WAVES | 59 |
THE HUIHUI | 93 |
THE ROAD TO EMMAUS | 128 |
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