This page features rich biographies that have been created with ArcGIS StoryMaps to portray the journeys of translators and their works.
(De)construction of a Myth from Enlightenment
Niccolò Guasti
How the Five Classics and Four Books entered the library in 1697-1700
Thierry Meynard
A perilous transformative journey to and through China
Michela Catto
The first Jesuit to master the Chinese language and a pioneer of Sino-Western cultural exchange.
Francesco Borghesi, Valentina Bottanelli
The Role of Jesuit Translations in the German Enlightenment
Henrik Jaeger
The (former) Jesuit Who Made Chinese Women Protagonists in Enlightenment Italian Literature
Serena Vinci
Justus Heurnius’ 1628 Chinese-Latin Collection
Valentina Bottanelli
