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- Title
Mediating Humanism and Scholasticism in Longobardo's "Resposta breve" and Ricci's Reading of Confucianism.
- Authors
Canaris, Daniel
- Abstract
The "Resposta breve" (Brief response, 1623–24) by Niccolò Longobardo was one of the most controversial documents ever penned in the Jesuit China mission. Longobardo criticized the use of indigenous Chinese vocabulary by Matteo Ricci to express Christian concepts as a perilous accommodation to diabolical monism. This article proposes a close reading of how Longobardo employed Scholastic, humanist, and Chinese sources to critique Ricci's disregard for the neo-Confucian interpreters in his reading of ancient Confucianism. It argues that Longobardo's polemic with Ricci was not theological in nature but reflected his distrust of philology in reconstructing the original meaning of ancient texts.
- Subjects
CHINA; LONGOBARDO, Niccolo; ANTI-Jesuit literature; LANGUAGE &; religion; RICCI, Matteo, 1552-1610; JESUIT missions; HUMANISM; SCHOLASTICISM (Theology); NEO-Confucianism; RELIGION
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2021, Vol 74, Issue 2, p498
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2021.4