Praise for The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci "An extraordinarily delicate achievement . . . Resembles the portrait of an age."
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The New York Times Book Review "A gripping portrait of late-sixteenth-century cultural history in both the West and the East."
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Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University, author of The Return of Martin Guerre "An extraordinary tour de force, a work of literature and at the same time a remarkable wide-ranging use of historical sources. This is the kind of history that most people in the profession cannot even begin to write."
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John King Fairbank, Harvard University