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A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun

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This chapter explains the philological principles employed in our edition of Longobardo’s “Resposta breve.” In particular, it stresses our intention to represent as accurately as possible Longobardo’s intellectual contribution while giving a sense of how the text was manipulated during the Chinese Rites Controversies. For this reason, our edition has opted to base the English translation on Santa Maria’s Latin translation of Longobardo’s report located in the archives of Propaganda Fide in Rome (APF). This manuscript has been systematically compared against Longobardo’s Portuguese text, which has been reconstructed with Longobardo’s autograph (and significantly mutilated) manuscript found in APF and a copy of Longobardo’s text found in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). This chapter also provides an overview of the most important manuscript and printed copies of the text.

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    Navarrete, Tratados históricos, 260.

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    Navarrete, 268.

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    Dehergne, Répertoire des Jésuites, 154.

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    Navarrete, 250.

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    Thierry Meynard, “Leibniz as Proponent of Neo-Confucianism in Europe,” in Leibniz and the European Encounter: 300 years of Discours sur la théologie naturelle des Chinois, ed. Li Wenchao 李文潮 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2017), 187.

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  1. University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Claudia von Collani

  2. Xue-Heng Institute for Advanced Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

    Daniel Canaris

  3. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Thierry Meynard

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  1. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Thierry Meynard

  2. Xue-Heng Institute for Advanced Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

    Daniel Canaris

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von Collani, C., Canaris, D., Meynard, T. (2021). Philological Note. In: Meynard, T., Canaris, D. (eds) A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun. Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0451-5_5

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