Matteo Ricci
Italian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Italian Jesuit who mapped the world in Chinese characters for early 1600s Beijing, bridging Western geography and Eastern scholarship. His 1602 Kunyu Wanguo Quantu became the template for how China saw itself globally.
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Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters. In 2022, the Apostolic See declared its recognition of Ricci's heroic virtues, thereby bestowing upon him the honorific of Venerable.
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