Over 700 years ago, Marco Polo opened up the contacts between China and Italy. Later, Matteo Ricci and Giuseppe Castiglione brought closer our two peoples.

700多年前，马可·波罗开辟了中意交往的先河，此后的利玛窦、郎世宁进一步拉近了中意两国人民的距离。

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The map created by Matteo Ricci was the first in Chinese to show the Americas.

这幅由利玛窦(Matteo Ricci)制作的地图是第一个用中文展示美洲的地图。

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We thought that Matteo Ricci could have introduced in this box the concept of the Good which overcomes the evil.

我们认为利玛窦可能已将战胜邪恶的美德这一概念引入他的盒子系统中。

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Those friars who followed Matteo Ricci into China brought with them the technology that mesmerized the Ming and Qing courts--clocks, celestial globes, telescopes.

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