Matteo Ricci was among the very earliest to report on the thoughts of Confucius, and father Prospero Intorcetta wrote about the life and works of Confucius in Latin in 1687.

The Jesuits, including Matteo Ricci, saw Chinese rituals as " civil rituals " that could co-exist alongside the spiritual rituals of Catholicism.

The Latinized name " Confucius " is derived from " Kong Fuzi ", which was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China, most probably by Matteo Ricci.

An early European account of Taoism was provided by the Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault in their De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas ( 1615 ).

Matteo Ricci ( left ) and Xu Guangqi ( right ) in the Chinese edition of Euclid's Elements published in 1607.

Instead of trying to approach Christianity through the traditions of the local religion and creating a nativised church as latter fellow Jesuit Matteo Ricci did in China, he was eager for change.

Two of his books, Life of Matteo Ricci, Xitai of the West and Holy images of the Heavenly Lord have been presented to the public by Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana in two separate occasions, on 13 and 25 October 2010.

* 1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary ( d. 1610 )

The university consists of eight colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, the Albers School of Business and Economics, the College of Education, the School of Law, Matteo Ricci College, the College of Nursing, the College of Science and Engineering, and the School of Theology and Ministry.

The Matteo Ricci College was founded in 1973 and named after Italian Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci.

A derivative, Daoshi (, " Daoist priest "), was used already by the Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault in their De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas, rendered as Tausu in the original Latin edition ( 1615 ), and Tausa in an early English translation published by Samuel Purchas ( 1625 ).

** Jesuit Matteo Ricci is allowed to enter the country.

Matteo Ricci.

* The Jesuit Matteo Ricci becomes the first European to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, during the Ming Dynasty.

* Copies are printed of the geographical map of East Asia created by Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit stationed in Ming Dynasty Beijing, China, with Chinese-written labeling and map symbols.

* May 11 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest ( b. 1552 )

* October 6 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary to China ( d. 1610 )

The canal's size and grandeur won it the admiration of many throughout history, including the Japanese monk Ennin ( 794 – 864 ), the Persian historian Rashid al-Din ( 1247 – 1318 ), the Korean official Choe Bu ( 1454 – 1504 ) and the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci ( 1552 – 1610 ).

The famous Roman Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci travelled from Nanjing to Beijing on the canal at the end of 16th century.

By c. 1600, the Jesuits stationed in China, led by Matteo Ricci, were pretty sure that it was, but others were not convinced yet.

Matteo Ricci visited Nanjing with many Western artworks, which were influential in showing different techniques of perspective and shading.

Once Ruggieri started studying Chinese and realized the immensity of the task, he wrote to Valignano, asking him to send Matteo Ricci ( 利瑪竇 ) to Macau as well, to share the work.

Born in Dumfries where his father, who " wanted his boy to play like Cesare Maldini ", ran Matthew's Cafe in Friars Vennel, Matteo started his career at Liverpool F. C., for whom he played between 1992 and 2000 ( with a small Sunderland A. F. C.

Following the appointment of former Chelsea midfielder Roberto di Matteo, Mikel appeared in 16 of the club's last 20 games and started in 14 of them, and began to play some of his best football for the club.

Itala was a car manufacturer based in Turin, Italy from 1904-1934, started by Matteo Ceirano and five partners in 1903.

Following Provenzano's capture in April 2006, Italy's intelligence service report warned of " emerging tensions " between mafia groups as a result of Provenzano's failure to designate either Salvatore Lo Piccolo or Matteo Messina Denaro as his successor.

Under caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo, Chelsea won their seventh FA Cup, and their first UEFA Champions League title, beating Bayern Munich 4 – 3 on penalties, the first London club to win the trophy.

In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and Gomorra, a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

He commissioned the artist Matteo Giovanetti de Viterbo to paint common hunting and fishing scenes on the walls of the existing papal chapels, and purchased enormous tapestries to decorate the stone walls.

The Ottomans invaded in 1565, undertaking the Great Siege of Malta, which began on May 18 and lasted until September 8, and is portrayed vividly in the frescoes of Matteo Perez d ' Aleccio in the Hall of St. Michael and St. George.

Partly based on the works by the Italian surgeon and anatomist Matteo Realdo Colombo ( c. 1516 – 1559 ), the anatomist William Harvey ( 1578 – 1657 ) described the circulatory system.

Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola was born on September 21, 1452 in Ferrara.

While some of these missions were associated with imperialism and oppression, others ( notably Matteo Ricci's Jesuit mission to China ) were relatively peaceful and focused on integration rather than cultural imperialism.

In Shakespeare's own lifetime, a writer known for doing likewise was Matteo Bandello, who based his work on that of writers such as Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer, and who could have served as an indirect source for Shakespeare.

To conmemorate the spot and atone for the crime, his successor Vittorio Emanuele III ordered the construction of an Expiatory Chapel on Via Matteo da Campione.

The UK premiere took place on 14 May 1853 at what is now the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London with Giovanni Matteo Mario as the Duke of Mantua and Giorgio Ronconi as Rigoletto.

Two of the founders left it: Matteo Serafini of Bascio ( Matteo Bassi ) to return to the Observants, while his first companion, on being replaced in the office of Vicar Provincial, became so insubordinate that he had to be expelled from the Order.

His language was studied by the scholar Matteo Bartoli, himself a native of nearby Istria, who visited him in 1897 and wrote down approximately two thousand eight hundred words, stories, and accounts of his life, which were published in a book that has provided much information on the vocabulary, phonology, and grammar of the language.

According to the Figurists ( a group of Jesuit missionaries mainly led by Joachim Bouvet into China at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century and based on ideas of Matteo Ricci 1552 to 1610 ), Fu Xi in China's ancient history is actually Enoch.

( New York: Random House, Inc. 1953 ) of the Latin work, De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas based on Matteo Ricci's journals completed by Nicolas Trigault.

The main gates are Porta San Giovanni on the ridge extending south, Porta San Matteo to the north west and Porta S. Jacopo to the north east.

Morgante ( c. 1483 ) by Luigi Pulci, Orlando innamorato ( 1495 ) by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando furioso ( 1516 ) by Ludovico Ariosto, and Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ) by Torquato Tasso are all indebted to the French narrative material ( the Pulci, Boiardo and Ariosto poems are founded on the legends of the paladins of Charlemagne, and particularly, of Roland, translated as " Orlando ").

Bayard also appears in the epic poems on chivalrous subjects by Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto.

Moyes fought back by signing Nuno Valente, Andy van der Meyde, Simon Davies, and Phil Neville ; signed Matteo Ferrari on loan ; and made Mikel Arteta a permanent signing.

Other champions of Wuorinen ’ s music include Peter Serkin, for whom Wuorinen composed three concerti including Time Regained ( based on music of Machaut, Matteo da Perugia, Guillaume Dufay, and Orlando Gibbons ) and Flying to Kahani, commissioned by Carnegie Hall ; the solo Scherzo and Adagio ; and the Second Piano Quintet with the Brentano Quartet, another ensemble with which Wuorinen has had a very fruitful relationship and for which he wrote his Fourth String Quartet.

Matteo Napoli on Naxos.