A new book presented today at the Rimini Meeting recounts the reality of the island from the faces of its people and the ...

Marco Polo’s legacy has lasted centuries. Italian missionary Matteo Ricci and painter Giuseppe Castiglione, both Jesuits, are ...

The tomb of the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci stands behind the French Church at 12 Maweigou (Horsetail Ditch) Road in the Fuchengmen district. Ricci died in Beijing in June 1610 at the age of 58.

We have the Jesuits to thank for that. In the late sixteenth century, two Italian Jesuit priests, Michele Ruggieri and the much better known Matteo Ricci, were instrumental in mediating the ...

The mother had planned to relocate to be close to her family in Hawick, Scotland, with her Italian husband Matteo Ricci, 40, and their children Alba, 12, Mirryn, nine, and Arthur, four ...

May 11, 1610: Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, the first Catholic missionary to China, dies. Entering the country as a repairer of clocks, Ricci was criticized for becoming a Confucian scholar and ...

The second is Matteo Ricci. If Marco Polo introduced China to Westerners, Matteo Ricci helped the Chinese people open their horizons and understand Europe and the West," said Meloni at the ...

The southern church, which was also a cathedral in past decades, was started by Matteo Ricci on the site where he resided. The east church formerly housed works of art by the favourite court ...

Alessandro Carrera, chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, shared his love ...

BEIJING, Aug. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In 1595, during the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty, an Italian man named Matteo Ricci came across Nanchang by chance. He was impressed by the spacious streets ...

Because of their size (58" x 30") it proved impractical to remount them on scrolls. The paintings were restored and reframed in 1997 by the Ricci Institute. We have no information about the artist or ...

The tomb of the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci stands behind the French Church at 12 Maweigou (Horsetail Ditch) Road in the Fuchengmen district. Ricci died in Beijing in June 1610 at the age of 58.