<DIV>In 1577, the Jesuit Priest <b>Matteo Ricci</b> set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming dynasty China. To capture the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life, <b>Jonathan Spence</b> relates his subject's experiences with several images that Ricci himself created--four images derived from the events in the bible and others from a book on the art of memory that Ricci wrote in Chinese and circulated among members of the Ming dynasty elite.<p> A rich and compelling narrative about a remarkable life, <b>The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci</b> is also a significant work of global history, juxtaposing the world of Counter-Reformation Europe with that of Ming China.</div>