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On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince

By Matteo Ricci, Timothy Billings (Translator)
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By Matteo Ricci, Timothy Billings (Translator)
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"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."—Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601

Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship—the first book to be written in Chinese by a European—that instantly became a late Ming best seller.

On Friendship distilled the best ideas on friendship from Renaissance Latin texts into one hu...

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