Alessandro Valignano

Alessandro Valignano worked in missionary work and Catholic Church.

Recorded positions include vicar general and ambassador. He belonged to Society of Jesus.

18 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library. Their recorded dates run from 1603 to 1954.

Copia di due lettere annue scritte dal Giapone del 1589 & 1590. 天正年間遣歐使節見聞對話錄. Nouveaux advis du royaume de la Chine, du Jappon et de l'estat du Roy de Mogor, successeur du grand Tamburla[n] & d'autres royaumes des Indes à luy subjects. [Le]ttera dei p. Alessandro Valignano, visitatore della Compagnia di Giesù nel Giappone, e nella Cina, del 1599. Sumario de la cosas de Japon (1583). Adiciones del sumario de Japon (1592). De rebus in Japoniæ regno. Epistola P. Alexandri Valignani provincialis de quinque e Societate Iesv pro Christi fide occisis in India Orientali anno 1583. Tenshō nenkan kenʼō shisetsu kenbun taiwaroku. Higashi Indo junsatsuki. Sumario de las cosas de Japon (1583). Nihon junsatsuki. Il cerimoniale per i missionari del Giappone. Sumario de las cosas de Japón (1583) Adiciones del Sumario de Japón (1592) Editados por José Luis Alvarez-Taladriz, dated 1954. De rebvs in Iaponiae regno post mortem Taicosamae, dated 1603. Lettera del P. Alessandro Valignano. Visitatore della Compagnia di Giesu nel Giappone e nella Cina de' 10. d'ottobre 1599. Al R.P. Claudio Aquaviva generale della medesima Compagnia. Catechismus Christianae fidei, in quo veritas nostrae religionis ostenditur, & sectae Japonenses confutantur, editus à Alexandro Valignano. Olyssipone, A. Riberius, 1586. Historia del principio y progresso de la Compañia de Jesús en las Indias orientales (1542-64). Sumario de las cosas de Japón (1583).

9 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Valignano, Alessandro, Religion Past and Present. Entre « philosophie » et « religion ». L’image des lettrés chinois selon Alessandro Valignano au tournant de l’année 1588, Cahiers d’études des cultures ibériques et latino-américaines, 2022. All or Nothing: Polemicizing God and the Buddhist Void in the Jesuit Mission to East Asia, Religions, 2024. Política ou missionação? Alessandro Valignano e as controvérsias da primeira visitação da Índia (1573-1580), Lusitania Sacra, 2021. Strangers in a Strange Land: Translating Catholicism in Early Modern Japan, The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2023. Portrait of a Jesuit. Alessandro Valignano 1539‑1606. Macau, Macau Ricci Institute, 2013. ISBN 978‑99937‑947‑7‑6 pp. 190, Humanitas, 2014. Comparing Western Perspectives and Eastern Axonometries in Jesuit Missions in China between 16th and 18th Century, Disegnare con, 2020. La transmisión del Renacimiento cultural europeo en China. Un itinerario por las cartas de Alessandro Valignano (1575-1606), Studia Aurea: Revista de Literatura Española y Teoría Literaria del Renacimiento y Siglo de Oro, 2017. Encounters? The De missione dialogus, its Cosmographic Discourses, and the Global Projection of Christian Europe’s Alleged Superiority, Cahiers d’études des cultures ibériques et latino-américaines, 2022.

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