…The missionaries, in order to carry out their duties, made an effort to investigate things in China and gather information, and reported the results to the headquarters of the religious order. Based on this information, the first book on China to appear in Europe was the “De natura da sino” (The Great Kingdom of China) by Augustinian missionary Juan Gonzalez Mendoça (1549-1617?), published in Rome in Spanish in 1585, and was immediately translated into various European languages. The French translation published in Paris in 1588 is particularly famous, and is quoted in the “Essays” by Montaigne, the greatest French writer and philosopher of the time. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "Mendoça, JG" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…宣教師たちは,本務遂行の必要からも,中国の事物の調査や情報の収集につとめ,その結果を教団の本部に報告した。これらの情報にしたがって,ヨーロッパに現れた中国に関する最初の書物は,1585年にローマにおいてスペイン語で出版されたアウグスティヌス会の宣教師メンドサJuan Gonzalez Mendoça(1549‐1617?)の《シナ大王国記》であり,ただちにヨーロッパの各国語に翻訳された。とくに著名なのは88年にパリで出版されたフランス訳であり,当時フランス最大の文人で哲学者でもあったモンテーニュの《随想録》にも引用されている。… ※「Mendoça,J.G.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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