Yaliang Fu (PhD Scuola Normale 2024) is a historian who focuses on literary and cultural interactions between East Asia and Italy in the early modern period. His research interests include European mnemonic traditions, representations of alterity in Renaissance Italian civilization, and the classical reception of Alexander the Great in late Ming China.
His academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in venues including Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, and several edited volumes in Italian. Supervisors: Andrea Torre
This article primarily focuses on the origin, the earliest dissemination and the accommodation of... more This article primarily focuses on the origin, the earliest dissemination and the accommodation of European Alexander texts in imperial China by Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610). After providing an overview of the Chinese Alexander traditions, it first examines the sources of inspiration for Ricci's choice of Alexander as the prominent historical figure in his booklet on friendship, and then explores the reason for and implications of Ricci's allegorical translation of Alexander as Lishan 歷山 in Chinese. The remainder of the article analyses the cultural accommodation and literary tradition of each European exemplum of Alexander anthologized in Ricci's writings, from Jiaoyou Lun 交友論 (Treatise on Friendship) to Jiren Shipian 畸人十篇 (Ten Discourses of the Man of Paradox). The article shows that all Ricci's accounts of Alexander are mainly derived from the European Medieval and Renaissance Alexander tradition and were adapted in China by the strategy of cultural accommodation.
23 Giugno 2022 — 24 Giugno 2022
CROSSROADS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN FOREIGN T... more 23 Giugno 2022 — 24 Giugno 2022
CROSSROADS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN FOREIGN TRAVELERS AND LOCAL INHABITANTS
In recent years an ever-growing number of studies has highlighted the importance of mobility for transnational exchange, in political, economic, social, and cultural terms. This has had a significant impact on the field of early modern studies.
This article primarily focuses on the origin, the earliest dissemination and the accommodation of... more This article primarily focuses on the origin, the earliest dissemination and the accommodation of European Alexander texts in imperial China by Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610). After providing an overview of the Chinese Alexander traditions, it first examines the sources of inspiration for Ricci's choice of Alexander as the prominent historical figure in his booklet on friendship, and then explores the reason for and implications of Ricci's allegorical translation of Alexander as Lishan 歷山 in Chinese. The remainder of the article analyses the cultural accommodation and literary tradition of each European exemplum of Alexander anthologized in Ricci's writings, from Jiaoyou Lun 交友論 (Treatise on Friendship) to Jiren Shipian 畸人十篇 (Ten Discourses of the Man of Paradox). The article shows that all Ricci's accounts of Alexander are mainly derived from the European Medieval and Renaissance Alexander tradition and were adapted in China by the strategy of cultural accommodation.
23 Giugno 2022 — 24 Giugno 2022
CROSSROADS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN FOREIGN T... more 23 Giugno 2022 — 24 Giugno 2022
CROSSROADS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN FOREIGN TRAVELERS AND LOCAL INHABITANTS
In recent years an ever-growing number of studies has highlighted the importance of mobility for transnational exchange, in political, economic, social, and cultural terms. This has had a significant impact on the field of early modern studies.
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CROSSROADS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN FOREIGN TRAVELERS AND LOCAL INHABITANTS
In recent years an ever-growing number of studies has highlighted the importance of mobility for transnational exchange, in political, economic, social, and cultural terms. This has had a significant impact on the field of early modern studies.
CROSSROADS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN FOREIGN TRAVELERS AND LOCAL INHABITANTS
In recent years an ever-growing number of studies has highlighted the importance of mobility for transnational exchange, in political, economic, social, and cultural terms. This has had a significant impact on the field of early modern studies.