Martino Martini

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Martino Martini [1]

a Jesuit missionary, was born at Trent in 1614, visited China, and published, after his return, De Bello Tartarico in Sinis, which was translated into the principal European languages; also an excellent map of China ("Atlas Sinensis"), and a History of China previous to the Christisan Aera. He died in 1661.

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