Andrea Balbo, Università di Torino, Italia; Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, Università di Pisa, Italia.
This volume collects the proceedings of the concluding conference in Turin of the SERICA project and hosts the contributions of 20 scholars on topics related to cultural contact between East and West from classical antiquity to the 19th century, mainly from a literary and linguistic perspective, which does not neglect some examples of material culture (books and artifacts; inscriptions). Examining the dynamics of cultural encounters along the Silk Roads, the volume focuses on different periods and authors. The division into four sections mirrors such a difference: the first part highlights some case studies pertaining to the classical world (mainly Indo-Iranian and Greco-Roman); the second section discusses some relevant figures of the ‘Jesuit century’, including non-Jesuit scholars and academic debates up to the 19th century; the third part is concentrated on philosophical texts, outlining the reception of Aristotle in China and presenting the first Latin translations of some Chinese classics; finally, the last section deals with some new perspectives obtained by exploiting digital resources. Thanks to the high profile of the scholars, the volume represents a significant progress in the comparative studies.
eBook published on:May 4, 2026eBook ISBN:9783111718583Hardcover published on:May 4, 2026Hardcover ISBN:9783111710181Front matter:6Main content:330Illustrations:19Coloured Illustrations:11Tables:23
Frontmatter
IContents
VIntroduction
11 Ancient Explorations Beyond Scrolls and Codices: The Diversity of Stories, Languages and Scripts Along the Silk Roads
3Maruts and the Ritual Paths to Immortality: Hints of Indo-Iranian Doctrines
15Mapping the Silk Land: The Far East in Some Western Geographical Texts
39On Rome, Diadems and other Topics Between Iran and Turfan
532 Modern Refractions: History Scribi e scrittura negli Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI di Giovanni Pietro Maffei
67Two Sources for the Early Jesuit Mission to China: Matteo Ricci’s Commentari and Michele Ruggieri’s Relatione
91The Earliest Latin and Spanish Translations of the Confucian Four Books: Old and New Perspectives
107Matteo Ricci Betrayed? Trigault’s Overly Cautious Translation of the Entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e Christianità nella Cina and the Origins of the European Idealisation of China
125Christians in Late-18th-Century Sichuan Province
149“Les pieds sont en haut et la tête en bas” : Some Considerations on de Guignes’s ‘Upside-Down’ Histoire des Huns
1593 Philosophic Encounters Aristotelian Philosophy Along the Maritime Silk Roads in Late Ming
171Some Topics of Mencius’ Philosophy in its First Latin Translation (c. 1590)
185The Difficult Search for Seneca the Younger in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus
2154 Future Perspectives Greek Epigraphy in SERICA
223Prime analisi computazionali sulla lingua dei testi latini di SERICA
245Bibliography
Index of Personal Names, Places and Anonymous Works
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