Titolo Heuristic remarks on the historiographic elocution in Alvaro Semedo's El Imperio de la China Periodico Intersezioni Anno: 2022 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 273 - Pagina finale: 288
After a brief exposition of the work El Imperio de la China, by Jesuit Ã?lvaro Semedo, I examine elements of the elocution of the historical and geographical genres, the moralizing purpose of the 1600s, the relationship of historical discourse with rhetoric and poetics, as well as the understanding of its post-Tridentine evangelizing cause, to understand the possibilities of truth in History