Jesuit’s rich portrait of 17th century China, as told to a Florentine scientist, intrigued a fragmented Europe Florentine writer Lorenzo Magalotti published Relazione della China after a colourful evening’s chat in 1665 with Austrian Jesuit priest Father Johann Grueber, who had spent several years in China. Photo: Wellcome Library, London.
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