In 1882, Nocentini published Il primo sinologo: P. Matteo Ricci. The first secular biography of the famous Italian Jesuit to China, it posed important questions about the origins of sinology and the role of Matteo Ricci as an early modern Italian traveller in Sino-western relations. Nocentini’s rereading of Matteo Ricci and travel literature in Italy in the late nineteenth century is examined through theories proposed by Derrida, Barthes and Nabokov. These theories provide an interpretative approach to understand the rereading carried out in Nocentini’s work, as they are intended as a process of interpretation and reinterpretation, as well as appropriation of the original meaning.
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Chapter Title
Lodovico Nocentini: A Rereader of Modern Italian Travellers to China
Authors
Aglaia De Angeli
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0.07
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Publication Year
2022
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Book Title
Rereading Travellers to the East
Book Subtitle
Shaping Identities and Building the Nation in Post-unification Italy
Editors
Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
232
Publication Year
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-578-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-579-0
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-580-6
Series Title
Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
Series ISSN
2975-0393
Series E-ISSN
2975-0261