Breve relatione della vita e morte del P. Ludovico Buglio, Missionario della Cina, scritta dal Padre Filippo Grimaldi nella Corte Imperiale di Pekin. Alli 4 ottobre 1682

Edité par ca, [Rome?], 1683

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Bound in modern marbled papered boards with leather title label in gilt to the upper board. 17th c. manuscript in ink in a fine secretarial hand, on laid paper with watermark of an anchor within circle. Fine condition, leading edge untrimmed. A little light spotting on the first leaf, very slim portion of leading edge of fourth leaf a little ragged and dust soiled. A report on the life, death, and funeral of the Sicilian Jesuit Ludovico Buglio (1606-1682), called Li Leisi (Chinese: ???), a distinguished missionary and scientist at the Chinese imperial court in Peking during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It was written by Buglio's fellow Jesuit and friend Filippo Grimaldi (Chinese: Min Ming'o, 1638-1712), who arrived in China in 1671. Grimaldi was present at his confrère's funeral, where he tells us that he partook of Manchu tea and wine offered to the mourners. This account, which contains information not reported elsewhere, remained in manuscript until the 20th century. In addition to our manuscript, three other copies are known, one of them in the Jesuit archives, Rome: Fondo Gesuitico, A.R.S.I. (Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu), 722/4; another in the Vatican: A.S.V. (Archivio Segreto Vaticano), Miscellanei dei Gesuiti, arm. VIII, 58, ff. 16r-21v; and the third in the State Archives, Rome: Archivio di Stato, Roma, Gesuiti, Miscell. Pacco 5. Ludovico Buglio labored in China for forty-seven politically turbulent years. He established the first mission in Szechwan (Sichuan) Province, where he carried out intensive evangelization despite opposition from local Buddhist and Daoist clergy, built churches at Baoning, Chongqing, and Peking, served as astronomer for the rebel Zhang Xianzhong (who raised Buglio to the rank of mandarin), and was instrumental in restoring the Imperial Observatory at Peking to Jesuit control. Buglio was imprisoned twice, exiled once, and narrowly escaped execution. An arrow wound inflicted by a Manchu warrior in 1647 never fully healed, leaving Buglio in intense pain for the rest of his life. The wound ultimately proved fatal. In a letter (transcribed in this manuscript) addressed to Buglio's fellow Jesuits in Peking, the Kangxi Emperor lamented Buglio's prolonged suffering and imminent death, and announced that he would assist with the funeral expenses. The Emperor's letter is followed by Grimaldi's eyewitness account of the funeral, which was overseen by imperial delegates, who also participated in the traditional Chinese funeral honors. Renowned for his mastery of spoken and written Chinese, Buglio wrote and published a large number of Chinese-language works, a list of which is appended to this manuscript. Among the most important of these were "Yulan Xifang Yaoji" ("Imperially Commissioned Essentials of the West"), presented to the Kangxi Emperor around May 1669, and a translation of Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" titled "Chaoxing xueyao" ("Compendium of the Science of the Supernatural"). The author and his account: Grimaldi "was one of the most capable and courageous missionaries; he arrived in China during a time of persecution when, with the exception of four Fathers remaining in Beijing, the other missionaries had been rounded up and held prisoner in Canton (twenty-five in total: fourteen Jesuits, ten Dominicans, and one Franciscan). Upon arriving in Macau, the young Fr. Grimaldi secretly made his way into Canton in December 1669 to take the place of a missionary-Fr. Navarrete, the Dominican superior-who had escaped from prison; his absence, had it been discovered, could have seriously jeopardized all the prisoners. In 1671, when the missionaries in Canton were released, Fr. Grimaldi was summoned to Beijing to assist Fr. Verbiest and gave science lessons to Emperor Kangxi himself. In 1685, the Emperor sent him to Russia to negotiate with the Tsar regarding the passage of Chinese merchants and European missionaries through Russian territory; however, he was unable to achieve this objective.

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Titre
Breve relatione della vita e morte del P. Ludovico Buglio, Missionario della Cina, scritta dal Padre Filippo Grimaldi nella Corte Imperiale di Pekin. Alli 4 ottobre 1682
Auteur
CHINA. JESUITS. Grimaldi, Claudio Filippo. Chinese name, Min Ming'o [???] (1638-1712)
Éditeur
ca, [Rome?]
Année de publication
1683
État de l'article
Fine
Reliure
Hardcover
Dimensions
Folio: 28.3 x 21 cm.

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