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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... writing out , in Chinese ideographs , a book of maxims on friendship drawn from various classical authors and from the church fathers . He presented this manuscript to a prince of the Ming rul- ing house who was living in Nanchang and ...
... writing out , in Chinese ideographs , a book of maxims on friendship drawn from various classical authors and from the church fathers . He presented this manuscript to a prince of the Ming rul- ing house who was living in Nanchang and ...
Page 245
... writers continued to circulate the same information in their printed works.37 Perhaps indeed Ricci did not do as much as ... writing to Acquaviva , asking him for some more small clocks " that could be worn around the neck " and also for ...
... writers continued to circulate the same information in their printed works.37 Perhaps indeed Ricci did not do as much as ... writing to Acquaviva , asking him for some more small clocks " that could be worn around the neck " and also for ...
Page 257
... writing so movingly of Li , he also quotes approvingly from the powerful indictment that the president of the Board of Rites , Feng Qi , had made of Li and all those who tried to syncretize Buddhism and Confucianism.72 73 This Board ...
... writing so movingly of Li , he also quotes approvingly from the powerful indictment that the president of the Board of Rites , Feng Qi , had made of Li and all those who tried to syncretize Buddhism and Confucianism.72 73 This Board ...
Contents
THE APOSTLE IN THE WAVES | 59 |
THE HUIHUI | 93 |
THE ROAD TO EMMAUS | 128 |
Copyright | |
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