Lodovico Buglio

Italian Jesuit active in China · Academics · Lived 1606 to 1682 · aged 76

Lodovico Buglio, Chinese name Li Leisi, was an Italian Jesuit mathematician and theologian. He was the first Catholic missionary to reach Sichuan, the then-westernmost province in China.

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Gabriel de Magalhães Co-founded St. Joseph's Church, Beijing

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Title page of Jin cheng ying lun (Treatise on hawks) by Ulisse Aldrovandi translated by Ludovico Buglio (edition from the Qianlong era).

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Academics born in the 1600s 6

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