Sacchini Francesco
Biografia del gesuita Francesco Sacchini
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Book Review: Letters of a Peking Jesuit: The Correspondence of Ferdinand Verbiest, SJ (1623–1688). Revised and Expanded. Ed. Noël Golvers. Leuven: Ferdinand Verbiest Institute, 2017
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La Mongolia interna crocevia dei rapporti tra Oriente e Occidente
This paper is focused on the relations between Inner Mongolia and the West. The Mongols of Inner Mongolia are one of the 56 minorities of China, and their number paradoxically is larger than those of Outer Mongolia. Through the ages, Mongolia was visited by several missionaries such as Giovanni da Montecorvino and Odorico da Pordenone, and in the following centuries by the jesuits A. Thomas, J. F. Gerbillon and others. At the beginning of the 20th century it was crossed by the Italian journalists Barzini, father and son, who described it in their reports.
Antoine Thomas: A historian of the Sino-Zunghar war
The Jesuit mission in China was of great significance at the very beginning of the Sino-Western relationships during the 16th and 17th centuries. Not only
the Chinese could benefit from the Jesuits’ skills in many scientific fields (astronomy, ballistic, geometry, etc.), but, on the other side of the Eurasian