A Spanish Jesuit in China
From the imperial palace into exile. Diego de Pantoja (1571-1618)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14422/mis.v80.i157.y2022.002Keywords:
Diego de Pantoja, mission, Jesuits in China, seven victoriesAbstract
This article provides an overview of the life and works of Diego de Pantoja (1571-1618), one of the pioneers of the Jesuit mission in China. Following the path opened by Francis Xavier, Diego de Pantoja arrived in Peking in the retinue of Matteo Ricci, which gave him access to the Chinese literati at the imperial court and thus contributed to the stability of the mission. The article starts with the formative years of his youth and closes with the persecution of Nanjing, including the period of missionary activity undertaken in Peking as collaborator and then successor of Matteo Ricci. Furthermore, it examines the main contributions of Diego de Pantoja to the missionary cause, highlighting the writing of the Relación de la entrada de algunos padres de la Compañia de Jesús en la China and of The seven victories over the seven deadly sins (Qikedaquan) as well as the reform of the calendar.
References
Bartoli, D. (1825). La Cina. In Opere del P. Daniello Bartoli della Compagnia di Gesù. (L. II, C. 262). Torino, Italia: Marietti.
Chunseng, D. (2013). Xu Guangqi, Alfonso Vagnone e i loro allievi Han Lin e Han Yun. In E. Giunipero (Ed.) Un cristiano alla corte dei Ming. Xu Guangqi e il dialogo interculturale tra Cina e Occidente. Milano, Italia: Guerini e Associati.
Colombel, A. (1900). Histoire de la mission du Kiang-Nan, Shanghai: Zi-Ka-Wei.
D’Elia, P. (1942). Fonti Ricciane, Voll. 3, Roma: Libreria dello Stato. (Citato: FR).
D’Elia, P. (1953). La Passione di Gesù Cristo in un’opera cinese del 1608-1610, in Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, XXII, pp. 276-307.
Dudink, A. (2001). Opposition to the Introduction of Western Science and the Nanjin persecution, 1616-1617. In C. Jami, P. Engelfriet & G.Blue (Edd.), Statecraft and Intellectual Renewal in Late Ming China. The Cross-Cultural Synthesis of Xu Guangqi. Leiden-Boston-Köln, Brill.
Dunne, G. (1962). Generations of Giants. Notre Dame, Indiana, USA: University of Notre Dame Press.
Gernet, J. (1984). Cina e cristianesimo. Casale Monferrato, Italia: Marietti.
Jingren, L. (2020), Le associazioni dei fedeli cristiani in Cina. Città del Vaticano: Urbaniana University Press.
Kai, Z. (1997). Diego de Pantoja y China: un estudio sobre la «Política de adaptación» de la Compañía de Jesús. Beijing: Editorial de la Biblioteca de Beijing.
Kai, Z. (2018). Diego de Pantoja y China. Madrid: Editorial Popular.
Nong, Y. (2017). Escritos de Diego de Pantoja. S. J. Guandong People’s Publishing House.
Pantoja, D. (1605). Relación de la entrada de algunos padres de la Compañia de Jesús en la China, y particulares sucesos que tuvieron, y de cosas notables que vieron en el mismo Reyno. Sevilla: Alonso Rodríguez Gamarra. Recuperado de: http://purl.pt/16628/
Peng, H. (2017). La relación entre Matteo Ricci y Diego de Pantoja, misioneros jesuitas. Pedralbes, vol. 37, pp. 47-57.
Ricci, M., D’Elia, P. (1942). Della entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e christianità nella Cina. Fonti Ricciane, 3 Voll. Roma: Libreria dello Stato. (Citato: FR).
Ricci, M. (2001). Lettere. Macerata, Italia: Quodlibet.
Semedo, A. (1643). Relatione della grande monarchia della Cina. Roma Hermann Scheus.
Shaoxin, D. (2013). Fede religiosa e ideali politici in Xu Guangqi alla luce della persecuzione di Nanchino. In E. Giunipero (Ed.) Un cristiano alla corte dei Ming. Xu Guangqi e il dialogo interculturale tra Cina e Occidente. Milano, Italia: Guerini e Associati.
Soto Artuñedo, W. (2018). Diego de Pantoja, SJ (1571-1618). Un puente con la China de los Ming. Aranjuez, Xerión.
Soto Artuñedo, W. (2021). El jesuita Diego de Pantoja en la Ciudad Prohibida de Beijing. Aranjuez, Xerión.
Suna, W., Mignini, F. (2010). Introduzione. In M. Ricci, I Dieci capitoli di un uomo strano. Macerata, Italia: Quodlibet.
Xu Guangqi (2020). Memoriale in difesa della scienza. In E. Giunipero (Ed.), Xu Guangqi e gli studi celesti. (pp. 151-167). Milano, Italia: Guerini e Associati.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
The authors of articles published in Miscelánea Comillas retain the intellectual property rights over their works and grant the journal their distribution and public communication rights, consenting to their publication under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivates 3.0 Unported. Authors are encouraged to publish their work on the Internet (for example, on institutional or personal pages, repositories, etc.) respecting the conditions of this license and quoting appropriately the original source.
