Nicolas Trigault

Trigault left Europe to do missionary work in Asia around 1610, eventually arriving at 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 1628.He sailed from Macau on February 9, 1613, and arrived in Rome on October 11, 1614, by way of India, the Persian Gulf and Egypt.[3][4] It was during this trip to Europe that Trigault edited and translated (from Italian to Latin) Matteo Ricci's "China Journal", or De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas.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.
Nicolas Trigault in Chinese costume , by Peter Paul Rubens , the Metropolitan Museum of Art
De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas , by Nicolas Trigault and Matteo Ricci , Augsburg , 1615.
Portrait of Nicolas Trigault , by Rubens workshop, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai
Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume by Anthony van Dyck
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