La cartografia di Matteo Ricci / a cura di Filippo Mignini.
Published by Libreria dello Stato, Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and indexes.

Contents:
Introduzione di Filippo Mignini.
Prima Parte: La cartografia di Matteo Ricci: documenti, fonti, influssi -- Edizioni a stampa e copie manoscritte delle carte geografiche di Matteo Ricci / John Day -- “E fu la migliore e più utile opra che in tal tempo si poteva fare”: Ipotesi sulle fonti cartografiche europee dei mappamondi cinesi di Matteo Ricci, 1584-1603 / di Francisco Roque de Oliveira [Traduzione dal portoghese di Raoul Zamponi] -- La geografia dei gesuiti / Giorgio Mangani -- I globi manoscritti della Compagnia di Gesù nella Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma / Maria Antonietta Conti -- Le fonti cinesi della cartografia ricciana / Huang Shijian 黃時鑒 , Gong Yingyan 龔纓宴, traduzione dal cinese a cura di Paolo Di Troia -- Prima di Matteo Ricci: La carta universal Honil kangni yŏktae kukto chi to, Corea, ca. 1479-1485 (Kyoto, Ryūkoku University Academic Information Center, Omiya Library) / Angelo Cattaneo -- Le mappe geografiche del mondo di Matteo Ricci e il loro influsso sul Giappone in epoca moderna / Hiro’o Aoyama --Li Madou cosmografo. Le mappe del mondo di Matteo Ricci nella Corea del tardo periodo Chosŏn / Lim Jongtae.

Seconda Parte: Il Mappamondo 1602 (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana): Riproduzione e traduzione . Huang Ping e Filippo Mignini -- Note / Huang Ping e Filippo Mignini.

Terza Parte: Bibliografia. Indice dei toponimi. Indice del nomi.

N.B. Honil kangni yŏktae kukto chi to = Honil Gangni Yeokdae Gukdo Ji Do 혼일강리역대국도지도 [混一疆理歷代國都之圖] or more commonly, Kangnido / Gangnido 강리도 [疆理圖]
LC name auth. Aoyama Hiroo [alt. use: Hirō] 青山宏夫, b. 1956

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"Pubblicato nella prestigiosa serie della Libreria dello Stato (IPZS), La cartografia di Matteo Ricci è il quinto volume della prevista collana delle Opere di Matteo Ricci, programmate in occasione delle celebrazioni ricciane, a cui sta per seguire il sesto (Mnemotecnica occidentale) presso l’editore Quodlibet. L’opera, frutto di sei anni di lavoro, si avvale della collaborazione di dodici studiosi italiani e stranieri, esperti di storia della cartografia e specialisti di fonti ricciane.

Si divide in cinque parti. L’introduzione generale, in cui l’autore ricostruisce la storia della cartografia ricciana, la formazione cartografica di Ricci, i documenti relativi all’attività cartografica emergenti dall’opera del gesuita maceratese e presenta una interpretazione complessiva del mappamondo ricciano, come “vera espressione del libro del Cielo e della Terra”. “La cartografia – afferma il prof. Mignini - era divenuta, negli intenti di Ricci e nella pratica effettiva, il principale strumento per l’introduzione del Cristianesimo in Cina”.

«Ricci – scrive l’autore nell’introduzione - non nasconde mai che l’enorme diffusione della carta ne fece lo strumento di gran lunga più importante ed efficace nella strategia di “autorizzazione”, ossia di acquisizione di credito e autorità presso il mondo dei confuciani, di sfaldamento dei pregiudizi cinesi nei confronti degli stranieri, e nella dimostrazione della tesi secondo cui in Oriente e in Occidente l’umanità è guidata da una sostanziale unità di “spirito e di principi”, come scrive Li Zhizao nella sua prefazione. Tesi, queste, centrali, nella strategia comunicativa ed evangelizzatrice di Ricci».

La seconda parte del volume è costituita da otto saggi che fanno il punto sulle conoscenze attuali intorno alla cartografia ricciana. Sono di John Day, Francisco Roque de Oliveira, Giorgio Mangani, Maria Antonietta Conti, Huang Shijian e Gong Yingyan tradotti da Paolo De Troia, Angelo Cattaneo, Hiro’o Aoyama e Lim Jongtae.
Il volume presenta una riproduzione dell’originale cinese e traduzione italiana a fronte, con annotazione analitica, del mappamondo 1602, a cura di Huang Ping e Filippo Mignini: una nuova traduzione dal cinese, del mappamondo ricciano, già pubblicato da P. D’Elia nel 1938.

Tre Appendici propongono documenti inediti e rari riguardanti la prima circolazione della cartografia ricciana in Cina, evidenziando il ruolo avuto da alcuni intellettuali cinesi, tra i quali Qu Taisu e Feng Yingjing. Bibliografia, indice dei toponimi e indice dei nomi completano il prestigioso volume."-- Publication announcement.

ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the cartographic works of Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), who spent his last twenty-seven years in Ming China. In particular, by focusing on Ricci's 1602 map, I examine the broader significance of Ricci's cartographic production to understand how it reflected early modern Chinese-European exchanges. In addition to the 1602 map, I use Ricci's letters to construct a framework for his cartographic involvement. In his writings, Ricci revealed his rationale for mapmaking and explained his collection of information. Only one year after his entry into China, in 1584, Ricci compiled a world map in the Chinese language and featured China towards the center of the map. In 1602, he completed the third revision of his map, adding a significant amount of details to his previous versions. This map was reproduced during and after Ricci's lifetime and has become a celebrated map in cartography. In my thesis, I contend that more than a proselytizing tool to attract the attention of the Chinese elites, Ricci used cartography to organize, preserve and transmit the information he collected during his travel in China. In my thesis, I show that while Ricci established himself as a religious man, under the influence of both his humanist education and his travel, he also became increasingly interested in the natural world that surrounded him. Ricci's letters and map reveal his intellectual development. In particular, Ricci's long tenure in China witnessed two phases of his intellectual transformation. The first phase, from 1582 to 1595, displayed Ricci's humanist education as he learned about China through the writing and translation of ancient Chinese and Western classics. In the second phase, from 1596 to 1610, however, Ricci presented himself as a scientist as he applied his scientific skills to collect information while traveling. In the process, he became increasingly interested in cartography which he came to view as a powerful tool to organize and present information. In time, Ricci's cartographic works became more sophisticated, reflecting both his European education and the Chinese culture.

Friendship and hospitality : the Jesuit-Confucian encounter in late Ming China /  Dongfeng Xu.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index.

Introduction -- Part One Friendship and the Jesuits -- 1 Striving for Divine Union: The Wholly Other and the Jesuit Vocation -- 2 Other Rhetoric: Reading Matteo Ricci's On Friendship -- Part Two Hospitality and the Confucians -- 3 The Subject of Hospitality and Sino-centrism: Theory and Chinese Cultural Background -- 4 Situating the Middle Kingdom: Matteo Ricci's World Map, the Wobbling Center, and the Undoing of the Host -- 5 Reforming the Calendar: The Ming Empire's Stairway to Heaven through the Jesuits -- 6 The Confucian Hospitality: Responding to the Jesuits -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.--OCLC note.

Librarian's note: While the focus of this study is on comparative concepts of friendship and hospitality, the text includes in-depth analysis of Ricci's 1602 Mappamondo, its layout, content, and background, and the Chinese critical response to it.  

Local access dig.pdf. [Xu-Friendship and hospitality.pdf]

Li Madou shijie ditu yanjiu 利瑪竇世界地圖研究 / Huang Shijian, Gong Yingyan zhu 黃時鑒, 龔纓晏著.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes folding map of Kunyu wanguo quantu 坤輿萬國全圖 (51 x 100 cm.)
Includes place-name index: Kunyu wanguo quantu diming tongjian 坤輿全圖地名通檢 [Appendix 2, p. 183-209].
“Li Madou shijie ditu yanjiu wenxian mulu 利瑪竇世界地圖研究文獻目錄“ : p. [210]-218.
Title also in English on p. [4] of dustjacket: A Study of Ricci’s World Map.

In addition to a detailed textual study of Ricci’s Mappamondo, or Kunyu wanguo quantu 坤輿萬國全圖, this volume describes both Chinese and European antecedents upon which the Mappamondo was based, a history of editions, versions extant in different countries, and an analysis of the original prefaces with index of place-names. Also described are earlier Chinese maps (e.g. Zhang Huang 章潢, Tushu bian 圖書編) that were incorporated or consulted in the original, and congshu such as the Sancai tuhui 三才圖會 which included the Mappamondo or versions based on it. Also includes Western examples (in color) of maps by Ortelius, Mercator, Plancio, etc., which Ricci used to detail Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

利瑪竇世界地圖研究為﹕Zhejiang Sheng Zhexue shehui kexue guihua keti, Zhejiang daxue ... 浙江省哲學社會科學規劃課題, 浙江大學 ... [etc.]
本書並受到浙江大學”僑福建設基金” 的出版資助.
中國版本圖書館CIP數據核字(2004)第020884號.

Local access dig.pdf. [Huang Shijian-Ricci Maps.pdf (pdf excludes folding map)]

Li Madou (Huang Qing jingjie: Chouren zhuan) 利瑪竇 (皇清經解疇人傳) / Ruan Yuan 阮元 -- Li Madou zhuan: Yugong di 5 juan di 3, qi 4 hekan 利瑪竇傳: 禹貢第五卷第三, 期四合刊 / Zhou Yiliang yi 周一良誼 -- Li Madou nianpu: Panshi zazhi 利瑪竇年譜 : 磐石雜誌 / Li Yi'ou 李一鷗 -- Li Madou nianpu 利瑪竇年譜 / Fang Hao 方豪 -- Kao Li Madou de shijie ditu 考利瑪竇的世界地圖 / Hong Weilian 洪煨蓮 -- Lun Li Madou ditu da Nianze Xintailang (Ayusawa Shintaro) xueshi shu 論利瑪竇地圖答鮎澤信太郎學士書 / Hong Weilian 洪煨蓮 -- Lun Li Madou zhi Wanguo quantu 論利瑪竇之萬國全圖 / Chen Guansheng 陳觀勝 -- Fandigang chuban Li Madou Kunyu Wanguo quantu duhou ji 凡蒂岡出版利瑪竇坤輿萬國全圖讀後記 / Fang Hao 方豪 -- Li Madou dui Zhongguo dilixue zhi gongxian jiqi yingxiang 利瑪竇對中國地理學之貢獻及其影響 / Chen Guansheng 陳觀勝 -- Qianlong shi xuezhe dui Li Madou zhuren zhi dilixue suochi de taidu 乾隆時學者對利瑪竇諸人之地理學所持的態度 / Chen Guansheng 陳觀勝 -- Li Madou Jiaoyou lun xinyan 利瑪竇交友論新研 -- Li Madou he Zhongguo de kexue 利瑪竇和中國的科學 / Pei Huaxing 裴化行.

"Jesuit astronomers and cartographers have a long history of service to the Chinese Empire, and introduced many new technological and theoretical modifications to traditional Chinese maps and charts. The Jesuit missioner Matteo Ricci (Chinese name Li Madou 利瑪竇), was a skilled linguist, mathematician, and cartographer who reached Macau from Goa in 1583 and began intensive study of Chinese. By 1584, Ricci had copied a European map in his possession and translated the names into Chinese. This work, the Yudi shanhai quantu 輿地山海全圖, is now lost, but its outline is preserved in the Tushubian 圖書編 by Ricci’s friend and associate Zhang Huang 章潢.
In 1600 a revised edition of this map was published with the slightly altered title Shanhai yudi quantu 山海輿地全圖. With the help of the eminent scholar Li Zhizao 李之藻, in 1603 and 1604 the third and fourth editions entitled Kunyu wanguo quantu 坤輿萬國全圖 were published, a copy of which is in the Vatican Archives and is reproduced here. Ricci introduced the system of longitude and latitude onto the traditional Chinese map grid. European maps by Mercator and Ortelius were the basis for Europe, Africa, and the New World, while the East Asian portion was based on a 1579 edition of the Guangyu tu 廣輿圖 by Luo Hongxian 羅洪先.
Ricci’s Mappamondo is the first representation of the New World (the America’s) on a Chinese map. Many Ming scholars immediately recognized these maps as important improvements on existing cartographic technology. Previously unknown regions were now charted in Chinese style and many of the foreign place-names used by Chinese today trace their origin to Ricci’s maps."
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