Matteo Ricci (c. 1552 - 1610) (1 jan 1552 ano – 1 jan 1610 ano)

Descrição:

- Italian from the Jesuit order
- Settles in Beijing (after receiving permission of
course) in 1601
- Received by Emperor Wanli as a “Christian
scholar”
> Dresses as scholar in order to portray
wisdom and knowing
 Builds a European – style observatory in
Beijing
 Draws a world map
- Translates Mencius’s Four Books (Of
Confucianism) into Latin
> Opens the dialogue between Chinese
Culture and Europe
- Has some success in converting, but not many
- Runs into issues from the Catholic Papacy in
trying to “alter” Catholicism in order to explain
and teach it to the Chinese
> Idea of ancestor worshipping was
problematic
> Ceremonies in honor of Confucius were
thought of as purely wrong by Papacy
> Translation of the word “God”