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 11
... religious books like Jeronimo Nadal's Commentaries on the Gospels , copiously illustrated with wood- cuts , which the Jesuits were publishing with the aim of making every important moment in Christ's life fresh and vivid in the viewer's ...
... religious books like Jeronimo Nadal's Commentaries on the Gospels , copiously illustrated with wood- cuts , which the Jesuits were publishing with the aim of making every important moment in Christ's life fresh and vivid in the viewer's ...
Page 97
... religion , residing in Rome . All the Europeans who are in the Roman Empire revere him . " And in the Atlantic Ocean ... religious contention . Especially in the Rome of the 1570s when he was a novice , the church's battles were kept to ...
... religion , residing in Rome . All the Europeans who are in the Roman Empire revere him . " And in the Atlantic Ocean ... religious contention . Especially in the Rome of the 1570s when he was a novice , the church's battles were kept to ...
Page 117
... religion is concerned the more ways of talking about religion there are , all the more benefit will that bring to the kingdom . " 9976 As Ricci got a sharper picture of these three basic schools of religious and ethical thought in China ...
... religion is concerned the more ways of talking about religion there are , all the more benefit will that bring to the kingdom . " 9976 As Ricci got a sharper picture of these three basic schools of religious and ethical thought in China ...
Contents
THE APOSTLE IN THE WAVES | 59 |
THE HUIHUI | 93 |
THE ROAD TO EMMAUS | 128 |
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