Doc Italia '89/90 (Istituto universitario orientale; Naples; originally Collegio dei cinesi, f. 4-7-1732; name changed 9-12-1869 to Real Collegio asiatico; came under state admin. in 1878; name changed 12-27-1888 to Istituto orientale di Napoli; name enlarged in 1925 to include adj. "superiore," and this was changed to "universitario" in 1937; nationalized by Law no. 1210, 12-3-57) ; Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale--OCLC auth. record.

"Gegenstand der vorliegenden Untersuchung sind Schriftstücke aus dem Vatikanarchiv in Rom und im Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchiv in München über das Collegium Sinicum in Neapel. In diesem Institut sind nach dem Willen seines Gründers, Matteo Ripa (1682—1745), der sich als Weltpriester der Propaganda-Kongregation für die Mission in China zur Verfügung gestellt hatte, einhundertfünfzig Jahre lang chinesische Alumnen auf den Priesterberuf vorbereitet worden, um nach Vollendung der Studien in ihrer Heimat im Dienst an der Evangelisierung tätig zu werden."--Publisher.
LC auth. rec.: Doc Italia '89/90 (Istituto universitario orientale; Naples; originally Collegio dei cinesi, f. 4-7-1732; name changed 9-12-1869 to Real Collegio asiatico; came under state admin. in 1878; name changed 12-27-1888 to Istituto orientale di Napoli; name enlarged in 1925 to include adj. "superiore," and this was changed to "universitario" in 1937; nationalized by Law no. 1210, 12-3-57)

Da Eboli a Pechino: Matteo Ripa (1682-1746) (Ma Guoxian 馬國賢), Missionario Italiano / di Michele Fatica, Fausta Colapietro.

Includes bibliographical references.

Michele Fatica, “Matteo Ripa dalle nebbie della vulgata edificante alla realtà storica. Il contributo di Fausta Colapietro”, pp. 7-39. -- Fausta Colapietro, “Da Eboli a Pechino (1684-1711): le Straordinarie avventure di viaggio di Matteo Ripa (1682-1746) Fondatore a Napoli del Collegio dei Cinesi”, pp. 41-181.

Local access dig.pdf. [Fatica-Colapietro-Da Eboli a Pechino.pdf]

Link to Fondazione Prospero Intorcetta Cultura Aperta volume

Keywords: Cardinal de Tournon imprisonment ; Macao ; painting ; craftsmen ; Description of Beijing ; navigation ; Nanjiang huo ; Chinese medical practices ; Chinese customs and traditions ; Engravers and engraving ; the Great Wall, Jehol, the Emperor Kangxi ; food and delicacies, fireworks, womens feet, landscape gardening, wrestling and archery, beards ; Chinese College ; Russian embassy, Count Ismailof, missionaries ; death of the Emperor Kangxi ; Chinese students.

CONTENTS
Preface. Paolo Santangelo. Chinese Printed Illustrations: Additional Notes on Materiality and on Material Authors of the Pipa ji and Xixiang ji Editions of the Ming Dynasty / Michela Bussotti. - Historicizing Ming-Ryukyu Relations: The Politics of Scholarship / Ying-Kit Chan. - From a Singing Bird to a Fighting Bug: Cricket-Fight and the Cultural Rhetorics in Late Imperial China / Hsiung Ping-Chen. - Essay on Giuseppe Maria Kuo’s Journal / Michele Fatica and Maria Letizia Pizzuti. - Intellectual or Emotional Knowledge? Values and Meanings of the Chinese Garden in the Ming Period / Maurizio Paolillo. - Liaozhai zhiyi and Zibuyu, Two Precious Qing Sources on Mentality and Imagery / Paolo Santangelo. - Karmic Retribution and Moral Didacticism in Erotic Fiction from the Late Ming and Early Qing / Wu Cuncun and Stevenson Mark. - Tianfang Dianli: A Chinese Perspective on Islamic Law and its Legal Reasoning / Tontini Roberta. - Praising and Blame: Evaluating Appellations in Song-Ming Historical Writings / Lee Cheuk Yin. - Emotions and Narrative: Depictions of Love in the Yuan Novella Jiao Hong ji and its Abridged Version in the Ming Anthology Qingshi leilüe / Barbara Bisetto. - Emotions in chengyu and other set phrases / Erhard Rosner.

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS
Notes on Variolation in Japan. Shutō hitsujun ben 種痘必順辨 (Variolation Ensures Gentle Smallpox, 1795) by Ogata Shunsaku 緒方春朔" / Paolo Villani - Korean Reaction to Matteo Ricci and Christianity: A Case of “Defensive Fundamentalism”? / Maurizio Riotto.

BOOK REVIEWS
Struve Lynn, “Dreaming and Self-search during the Ming Collapse: The Xue Xiemeng Biji, 1642-1646”, T’oung Pao 93, 2007, pp. 159-192, and Struve Lynn, “Self-Struggles of a Martyr: Memories, Dreams, and Obsessions in the Extant Diary of Huang Chuyao”, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 69, 2, 2009, pp. 343-394 / Paolo Santangelo. - Yu Anthony, Comparative Journeys. Essays on Literature and Religion East and West, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, pp. 408 / Paolo Santangelo.

Jonathan Chaves 齊皎瀚: "An Eighteenth-Century Poem on Infanticide by Chiang Shi-chan (Jiang Shiquan)", pp. 1-4.
Ad Dudink 杜鼎克: "Note about the Four Precepts of the Church in Chinese Texts (ca. 1600-1800)", pp. 5-13.
Jonathan Chaves 齊皎瀚: "Chang Jui-tu (Zhang Ruitu) 張瑞圖 (1570-1641) Poem in Honor of Giulio Aleni, S.J. (1582-1649)", pp. 14-18.
David E. Mungello 孟德衛: "The Sad Tale of Lucio Wu (1713-1763)", pp. 19-33.
Ad Dudink 杜鼎克: "Note on the restored site (2003) of Xu Guangqi's tomb at Shanghai", pp. 34-37.
David E. Mungello 孟德衛: "Review Essay: A Journey to the East that Never Leaves Rome" (Review of Liam Brockey, Journey to the East and Han Qi & Wu Min's edition of Xichao dingan 熙朝定案), pp. 38-44.

New Publications in the field: Carroll, John M., A concise history of Hong Kong (2007) -- Dudink, Ad, Chinese books and documents (pre-1900) in the Royal Library of Belgium at Brussels (2006) -- Huang Xiaojuan 黃曉鵑, “Christian communities and alternative devotions in China, 1780-1860” Doctoral dissertation, Princeton University (2006) -- Li Jiubiao 李九標, Kouduo richao 口鐸日抄: Li Jiubiao’s diary of oral admonitions (2007) – Laamann, Lars Peter, Christian heretics in late imperial China: Christian inculturation and state control, 1720-1850 (2006) -- 中國來信 (1716-1735) [簡體] [捷克] 嚴嘉樂 (Karel Slaviček, S.J.) 著 (2002) -- Slaviček, Karel, Listy z Činy do vlasti (1716-1735) (1995) -- Standaert, N. & Dudink, A., Forgive us our sins: confession in late Ming and early Qing China (2006) -- Taveirne, Patrick, Han-Mongol encounters and missionary endeavors: a history of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao), 1874-1911 (2004).