《多罗枢机使团史》初探

A Preliminary Study of Istoria della spedizione del Cardinale Carlo Tommaso Maillard de’Tournon

《多罗枢机使团史》是一部18世纪罗马教廷内部传阅的文献汇编,包含了首位访华特使多罗的书信和报告,记录了其出使的缘由和经过。由于种种原因,这部文献一直未能完整出版,至今仍以手稿形式保存于意大利罗马卡萨纳塔图书馆之中。《多罗枢机使团史》与耶稣会的档案形成互补,但了解其内容的国内外学者却寥寥无几。本文试图对这部文献进行初步的整理、翻译和研究,旨在揭示教廷出使过程中鲜为人知的一面,修复过于粗疏的历史细节,为中西文化交流史的研究提供一个新的视角和窗口。

Istoria della spedizione del Cardinale Carlo Tommaso Maillard de’Tournon is a collection of manuscripts circulated within the Roman Curia in the 18th century.It contains letters and reports from the first papal legate to China,Maillard de Tournon,and records his entire mission to the Qing court in China.For various reasons,these manuscripts preserved in the Casanatense Library in Rome and never fully published,remain relatively unknown to scholars.This article seeks to introduce this collection,gives several examples of the counterpoint of the previous studies based on the Jesuits’materials,and opens a new window for research into the Sino-Western cultural exchange.