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Liber hic, Lector candide, posthumus P. Matthaei Riccii partus.
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The sentence addresses the reader openly as a “candid reader” and presents the book as P. Matteo Ricci’s “posthumous offspring.” Calling the book an offspring is a figurative way of linking it closely to Ricci, while “posthumous” indicates that it belongs to him after his death.
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- Wikisource facsimile of Trigault’s 1617 edition, “Ad lectorem,” p. VIII
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