The De missione was published in Macau by the Jesuit press between 15 under the supervision of Valignano and Mesquita 2, who had personally acquired the press and two sets of Latin and Japanese (katakana) movable types in Lisbon in 1586 and became responsible for the itinerant Jesuit press in Japan until he died near Nagasaki in 1614 3.ĢThe De missione. (1531-1600), probably the most skilled Humanist in the missions in Southeast Asia 1. The notes were transformed into a dialogue, divided into 34 colloquia (or dialogues) and translated into Latin by Duarte de Sande S. J. (1553-1614) and two Japanese Jesuit brothers (irmãos) Jorge de Loyola (1562-1589) and Constantino Dourado (1567?-1620) who served as their attendants.

(1539-1606) between 15, immediately after the landing in Macau of Chijiwa Seizaemon Miguel (1569?-1633), Itō Mansho (1570-1612), Nakaura Julião (1568-1633), and Hara Martinho (c. 1570-1629), the four Japanese legati, accompanied by their tutor and mentor Diogo de Mesquita S. J. the Laures Rare Book Database, created by (.)ġ The work entitled De missione legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam curiam, rebusque in Europa, ac toto itinere animadversis dialogus ex ephemeride ipsorum Legatorum collectus («A dialogue concerning the sending of the Japanese legates to the Roman Curia, on European matters and the itinerary they observed, composed from the notes of the Legates») was written in Spanish by Alessandro Valignano S. J.

3 Üçerler 2005, pp. 1-18 on the Jesuit press in Asia, s.2 De missione Legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam curiam, rebusque in Europa, ac toto itinere animadvers (.).1 On the transmission of humanistic knowledge in Southeast Asia, in particular of humanistic dialogue (.).On the basis of extant research on the reception of Western iconography in Japan, we will discuss the possible role of De missione in the appearance and production, since the late sixteenth century, of a hybrid pictorial corpus of cosmographic images depicted by Japanese painters on folding screens (the so-called sekai chizu byōbu, or ‘world map’ folding screens), in particular of those of the Jōtoku-ji type, displaying the sea routes of circumnavigation of the whole globe. (1539-1606) outlined the geographical discourse of the De missione by following Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum (1570), this study will also allow to analyze a specific use of the Theatrum for Catholic missionary purposes. Since the padre visitador Alessandro Valignano S. J. This essay analyses the epistemological foundations of the use and functions of cosmography, geography and cartography in the De missione dialogus as a way to sustain the European moral and scientific alleged superiority with respect to all other civilizations.

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