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 29
... thousand infantry and six thousand cavalry . Guise was in Macerata during early April , and the visit was uneventful . More alarming was his return in May , after he had failed to capture the strategic Spanish - held fortress of ...
... thousand infantry and six thousand cavalry . Guise was in Macerata during early April , and the visit was uneventful . More alarming was his return in May , after he had failed to capture the strategic Spanish - held fortress of ...
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... thousands of camp followers whose ranks included , besides the papal delegate and two senior bishops , several hundred ... thousand or more , or one for every active soldier in the regular line of march.33 Perhaps nothing so typifies one ...
... thousands of camp followers whose ranks included , besides the papal delegate and two senior bishops , several hundred ... thousand or more , or one for every active soldier in the regular line of march.33 Perhaps nothing so typifies one ...
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... thousand to three thousand ducats by the time they reached the capital . He had stood at the door of the Jesuit residence and watched the foundation stones for the palace buildings come rumbling by on gigantic carts hauled by one ...
... thousand to three thousand ducats by the time they reached the capital . He had stood at the door of the Jesuit residence and watched the foundation stones for the palace buildings come rumbling by on gigantic carts hauled by one ...
Contents
THE APOSTLE IN THE WAVES | 59 |
THE HUIHUI | 93 |
THE ROAD TO EMMAUS | 128 |
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