1615 Rare Jesuit Account Report CHINA Nicolas Trigault Latin Travel
by Nicolas Trigault
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Antwerp: Peter and John Bellerus. 1st Edition. Books and Manuscripts. Very Good. Very early and extremely rare Jesuit account on China. Full title Litterae Societatis Iesu e regno Sinarum ad R. P. Claudium Aquavivam eiusdem Societatis Praepositum Generalem annorum M.DC.X M.DC.XI. A. R. P. Nicolao Trigautio, eiusdem Societatis, conscriptae Antverpiae, apud Petrum Ioannem Belleros. M. DC. XV. *** By Nicolas Trigault (1577â1628) Language: Latin. Imprint: Antwerp: Peter and John Bellerus, 1615. *** Pages: 227, /1/. Dimensions: 17,4 x 11,3 cm. Binding: No binding, probable was bound with some other titles. Gilted edges. Condition: Almost all leaves heavily browned due to paper aging. A small wormhole and two very tiny holes on the title, not affecting the text. Title scratched, some notes and stamp of the previous owner removed. Provenance: no marks, but acquired with the part of the library of Irish poet William Monk Gibbon. *** Nicolas Trigault (1577â1628) was a Flemish Jesuit and a missionary to China. He was also known by his Latinised name Trigautius or Trigaultius, and his Chinese name Jin NÃgé. Life and work Born in Douai (then part of the Spanish Netherlands, now part of France), he became a Jesuit in 1594. Trigault left Europe to do missionary work in Asia around 1610, eventually arriving in Nanjing, China in 1611. He was later brought by the Chinese Catholic Li Zhizao to his hometown of Hangzhou where he worked as one of the first missionaries ever to reach that city and was eventually to die there in 1629. In late 1612 Trigault was appointed by the China Missionâs Superior, Niccolo Longobardi as the China Missionâs procurator (recruitment and PR representative) in Europe. He sailed from Macau on February 9, 1613, and arrived in Rome on October 11, 1614, by the way of India, the Persian Gulf, and Egypt. His tasks involved reporting on the missionâs progress to Pope Paul V, successfully negotiating with the Jesuit Orderâs General Claudio Acquaviva the independence of the China Mission from the Japan Misson, and traveling around Europe to raise money and publicize the work of the Jesuit missions. Peter Paul Rubens did a portrait of Trigault when the latter stopped there in 1617 (at right). It was during this trip to Europe that Trigault edited and translated (from Italian to Latin) Matteo Ricciâs China Journal, or De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas. (He, in fact, started the work aboard the ship when sailing from Macau to India). The work was published in 1615 in Augsburg; it was later translated into many European languages and widely read. The French translation, which appeared in 1616, was translated from Latin by Trigaultâs own nephew, David-Floris de Riquebourg-Trigault. In April 1618, Trigault sailed from Lisbon with over 20 newly recruited Jesuit missionaries and arrived in Macau in April 1619. Trigault produced one of the first systems of Chinese Romanisation (based mostly on Ricciâs earlier work) in 1626, in his work Xiru Ermu Zi (Aid to the Eyes and Ears of Western Literati). Trigault wrote his book in Shanxi province. Aided by a converted Chinese, he also produced the first Chinese version of Aesopâs Fables (), published in 1625. In the 1620s Trigault became involved in a dispute over the correct Chinese terminology for the Christian God and defended the use of the term Shangdi that had been prohibited in 1625 by the Jesuit Superior General Muzio Vitelleschi. Another fellow Jesuit, André Palmeiro stated that a mentally unstable Trigault had become deeply depressed after failing to defend the use of the term, and had committed suicide in 1628. You can learn more about Jesuits and their missions here. *** For item condition and details see the scans. More photos available on demand EMS shipping included in the price, courier service available on request. If you have any additional questions feel free to contact us.
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- 1615 Rare Jesuit Account Report CHINA Nicolas Trigault Latin Travel
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- Nicolas Trigault
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- china, jesuits, mission, religion
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