"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."—Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601 Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship—the first book to be written in Chinese by a European—that instantly became a late Ming best seller. On Friendship distilled the best ideas on friendship from Renaissance Latin texts into one hundred pure and provocative Chinese maxims. Written in a masterful classical style, Ricci's sayings established his reputation as a great sage and the sentiments still ring true. Available for the first time in English, On Friendship matches a carefully edited Chinese text with a facing-page English translation and includes notes on sources and biographical, historical, and cultural information. Still admired in China for its sophistication and inspirational wisdom, On Friendship is a delightful cross-cultural work by a crucial and fascinating historical figure. It is also an excellent tool for learning Chinese, pairing a superb model of the classical language with an accessible and accurate translation.

On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince

Ricci, Matteo

Religion & Spirituality

Columbia University Press

I Miei Ricordi (Italian Edition)

Azeglio, Massimo D'

Arts & Photography

Nabu Press

I Miei Ricordi, Volume 2 (Italian Edition)

D'Azeglio, Alessandrina Ricci

Biographies & Memoirs

I Miei Ricordi, Di Massimo D'Azeglio - Primary Source Edition (Italian Edition)

English summary: Matteo Riccis Lord of Heaven became one of the integral texts of Chinese intellectual tradition, opening the way for a forth school of thought, Confucian Christianity, alongside Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. The sixteenth-century Jesuit priests dialogue with a Confucian scholar, using both scholastic philosophy and Chinese classical texts to argue that Christianity was compatible with Chinese tradition. A French translation accompanies the annotated Chinese text. French description: Le sens reel de Seigneur du Ciel, bien qu' ecrit par un Occidental, fait partie integrante de la tradition intellectuelle chinoise, ayant influence des penseurs comme Fang Yizhi, Huang Zongxi ou Dai Zhen. Il a aussi ouvert la voie a une quatrieme ecole, celle du Christianisme confuceen, a cote des trois ecoles traditionnelles du confucianisme, taoisme et bouddhisme. Le Jesuite italien Matteo Ricci dialogue ici avec un lettre confuceen. Il ecarte toutes les donnees de la religion revelee pour s'engager dans un travail de raison, s'appuyant a la fois sur la philosophie scolastique et sur les textes classiques chinois. Il demontre que la foi chretienne est compatible avec la tradition chinoise la plus authentique. Ce texte, longuement muri, publie en 1603 et reedite de nombreuses fois en Chine, a ete traduit en plusieurs langues. En langue francaise, il nexiste qu'une traduction du XVIIIe siecle. Aussi, nous presentons ici pour la premiere fois lintegralite du texte chinois avec une traduction moderne et annotee.

Le sens réel de « Seigneur du Ciel » (Bibliotheque Chinoise) (Chinese and French Edition)

History

Europe

Les Belles Lettres

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