The memory palace of Matteo Ricci.

The Nation | December 29, 1984| | Copyright

In the second half of the sixteenth century--after the conquest of the Americas--Madrid, Lisbon and Rome were setting their sights on the material and ideological subjugation of the East. Portuguese beachheads had been established in Macao and Goa, and Francis Xavier himself had brought the Word to India and Japan. He died in 1552 on a barren island off the coast of China, trying to get in, dreaming of the conversion of the Ming Empire.

Goa, a tiny colony on a stretch of paradisiacal beach on the southwestern coast of India, was a glimpse of the kind of world they ...

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