Prospero Intorcetta
{{Short description|Italian Jesuit missionary (1625–1696)}}
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Prospero Intorcetta (1625–1696), known to the Chinese as Yin Duoze, was an Italian Jesuit missionary to the Qing Empire. He was the first to translate the works of Confucius in Europe.
Life
Prospero Intorcetta was born in Piazza Armerina, Sicily, on August 28, 1625.
Traveling with the Flemish Jesuit Philippe Couplet, he reached China in 1659. There, he mostly worked in the Jiangnan region around the lower Yangtze River.[https://books.google.com/books?id=sOGSvo4VMPkC&pg=PA277&dq=%22Prospero+Intorcetta%22 Brockey, p. 277]
He died on October 3, 1696, in Hangzhou.{{fact|date=January 2018}}
Works
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Intorcetta studied Chinese philosophy. In 1662, he published the study of the Four Books of Confucianism in a Latin work entitled The Meaning of Chinese Wisdom.Brockey, p. 279 In 1667, he published the Politico-Moral Knowledge of the Chinese ({{lang|la|Sinarum Scientia Politico-moralis}}). In 1687, under Philippe Couplet's guidance, he worked with Christian Wolfgang Herdtrich and François de Rougemont to compile an influential Latin overview of Chinese history and translation of some of the Confucian classics under the title Confucius, Philosopher of the Chinese ({{lang|la|Confucius Sinarum Philosophus}}).
See also
References
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- {{citation |first=Liam Matthew |last=Brockey |title=Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-674-02448-9 |location=Cambridge }}.
- {{citation |url=https://archive.org/stream/confuciussinarum00conf_0#page/n5/mode/2up |title=Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, sive, Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita [Confucius, Philosopher of the Chinese, or, Chinese Knowledge Explained in Latin] |editor-last=Intorcetta |editor-first=Prospero |editor2=Philippe Couplet |editor3=Chrétien Herdtrich |editor4=François Rougemont |display-editors=1 |ref={{harvid|Intorcetta & al.|1687}} |date=1687 |location=Paris |publisher=Daniel Horthemels }}. {{in lang|la}}
- {{citation |last=Paternicò |first=Luisa M. |date=2011 |contribution=Prospero Intorcetta and the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus |editor=Luisa M. Paternicò |display-editors=0 |title=The Generation of Giants: Jesuit Missionaries and Scientists in China [in] the Footsteps of Matteo Ricci |location=Trent |publisher=Centro Studi Martino Martini |pages=61–68 }}.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161115193854/http://www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/i/intorcetta-prospero.php Bibliographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity]
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