Intervento dell’Ambasciatore della Repubblica Popolare Cinese / S.E. Wu Minglian – Saluto del Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Trento / Massimo Egidi – La relazione Europe-Cina / Franco Demarchi – Martino Martini e le grandi transformazioni nella Cina del suo tempo / Paolo Santangelo – Gli scritti ‘minori’ de Martino Martini / Diego Quaglioni – La formazione scolastica dei Gesuiti nel Seicento: il Collegium et Gymnasium tridentinum / Lia de Finis – L’Epistolario. Martino Martini communicatore. Lettere de viaggio e documenti dalla Cina a Roma con fervor / Bruno Sanguanini – Di Martino Martini e dei riti cinesi / Fernando Orlandi – I movimento de Martino Martini nel Fujian (1646) in alcuni documenti inediti / Eugenio Menegon – L’atlas di Martino Martini tramite verso la conoscenza dell’Asia estrema. Attualità di fine millenio per un Geografo del Seicento / Maria Rosa Arnoldi – la prima traduzione italiana della ‘Storia dell’antica Cina’ di M. Martini / Miriam Lenzi – L’Attualità di Martino Martini: per relazione con la Cina che non siano solo rapport d’affari / Renzo Gubert.

The personality and work of Martino Martini / Franco Demarchi -- Outstanding contribution of the Sinologist Martini to cultural exchanges between China and the West / Xu Mingde 徐明德 -- Life of Martino Martini / Gao Yongyuan 高泳源 -- Trento prince-bishopric in the seventeenth century / Guido Lorenzi -- Lisbon, the port for the East Indies / Victor Campero -- Transoceanic navigation in the seventeenth century: the Portuguese route to the Indies / Aldo Caterino -- Relations and exchanges between China and the West in the seventeenth century / Zhang Lanxing 張蘭馨 -- Chinese culture in the seventeenth century / Piero Corradini -- Chinese bureaucracy and the change of dynasty in the 17th century / Arnold Zingerle -- Central authority and local powers in Imperial China / Ricardo Scartezzini -- The acceptance of Christianity in China during the 17th century / Mark K. Chang 張奉箴 -- An assessment of the role of the Jesuits in Chinese history / Du Wenping 杜文平 -- The female condition in China / Raffaella Mantovanelli -- Friendship as a social bond: interactions between Chinese and European culture / Bruno Sanguanini -- De Amicitia and other Chinese works / Giuliano Bertuccioli 白佐郎 -- How friendship is made in the West and China / Hao Guiyuan 郝貴遠 -- Sinicae Historiae Decas Prima: some suggested interpretations / Giuseppe Brancaccio -- Theology and chronology in Sinicae Historiae Decas Prima / Claudia von Collani -- De Bello Tartarico Historia by Martino Martini / Shi Shengsan 史盛三 -- A re-examination of Martini's journeys and contacts in China / Xu Minglong 許明龍 -- Sociography in Martini's works / Orlando Lentini -- Chinese urban structure according to the Atlas / Maria Rosa Arnoldi -- The levying of tribute in the Chinese empire according to the Novus Atlas Sinensis / Vittorio Tonazzo -- Introduction of western artillery by the Jesuit missionaries and the consequent changes in warfare between the Ming and the Qing / Ma Chujian 馬楚堅 -- Martini's mediation between China and Europe / Shen Dingping 沈定平 -- Martini in Confucian China / Liu Jiantang 劉鑒唐 -- Martini's approach to the religions of China: notes on the geography of religions / Gabriele Pollini -- The Holy Office's decree of 1656: the question of the Chinese Rites and the role of Martini / Severino Vareschi -- Research on Martino Martini in 20th century China / Gu Weimin 顧衛民.

Martino Martini, geografo, cartografo, storico, teologo : Trento 1614, Hangzhou 1661 : atti del Convegno Internazionale / a cura di Giorgio Melis.
Text in Italian and English.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Cover device: Wei Kuangguo 衛匡國.

Contents: The Cartographic validity and success of Martino Martini's Atlas Sinensis / Osvaldo Baldacci -- The geographical contents in the historical works of Martino Martini / Alessandro Cucagna -- Nature and landscape in the descriptions of Martino Martini / Gunther Hamann -- Problematic questions on geography revealed by an examination of the Novus atlas Sinensis / Giuseppe Staluppi -- Japan in Martino Martini's work / Adolfo Tamburello -- Martini's outstanding contribution to the geographical knowledge of China in the seventeenth century / Wu Chuanjun -- Martino Martini as China's national historian: the De bello Tartarico / Piero Corradini -- Martino Martini's historiographical method / Carlo Ghisalberti -- Martino Martini's activity in China and his works on Chinese history and geography / Ma Yong -- China in Martini's times / Luciano Petech -- Martino Martini's personality / Bonifacio Bolognani -- The Roman College in the first half of the seventeenth century and the cultural formation of Martino Martini / Maria Rosa di Simone -- Martino Martini in his town / Frumenzio Ghetta -- Christianity in China according to the Brevis Relatio / Angelo Lazzarotto -- Martino Martini's travels in China / Giorgio Melis -- Martino Martini's role in the controversy of Chinese Rites / Josef Sebes -- Historical and cultural reasons of the Controversy over Chinese Rites / Pietro Tchao -- Martino Martini's influence on the figurism of Joachim Bouvet / Claudia von Collani.

***Graphic Resource: fold-out color reproductions of Novus atlas Sinensis (frontispiece, map, partial enlargement of Japan section), color portraits.