Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Orthography and Usage -- Prelude: Nagasaki, 1635 -- Introduction: Company Man -- Part One. Inside the Empire -- 1. Entering the Order -- 2. The Visitor in Training -- 3. Manager of Men -- 4. In the Footsteps of the Apostles -- 5. Among Archbishops, Emperors, and Viceroys -- Part Two. At Empire's Edge -- 6. The View from Macau -- 7. To Beijing and Back Again -- 8. Challenging Accommodation -- 9. Sunrise in the West -- 10. Sunset in the East -- Conclusion: A Baroque Death -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In an age when few ventured beyond their birthplace, André Palmeiro left Portugal to inspect Jesuit missions from Mozambique to Japan. A global history in the guise of biography, The Visitor tells the story of a theologian whose travels bore witness to the fruitful contact--and violent collision--of East and West in the early modern era.

In English.