Zottoli’s Works in Dialogue with Chinese Culture and Jesuit Spirituality

Abstract

This chapter offers an overview on other works by Zottoli that are related to cosmogony and establishing, in different ways, a dialogue between Jesuit spirituality and Chinese culture, in general, and Confucianism, in particular. The texts that have been analyzed are the Catechismi ad usum Vicariatus Nankinensis (Nanjing Catechism, 1892), the Ascetica Nomenclatio (Ascetic nomenclature, 1877), and the Dictionarium Latino-Sinicum (Latin-Chinese Dictionary, c.a. 1902). The latter was a project started by Zottoli but that is probably lost. In the chapter there is a brief analysis of another similar text, also named Dictionarium Latino-Sinicum, that has not been written by Zottoli but that is showing the importance of the specific Latin and Chinese terminology in relation to cosmogony.