Francesco Sambiasi
Male, Deceased Person
1582 – 1649
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Who was Francesco Sambiasi?
Francesco Sambiasi or Bi Fangji was a Catholic missionary to China, part of the Jesuits. He was sent with the boat Nossa Senhora da Piedade to the East on 23 March 1609 and arrived in Macao in 1610. He worked in various places during his mission in China: Beijing, Kiating and then Shanghai, took a trip to Korea, then to Kaifeng, Shanxi, Shandong, Nanjing and then to Macao.
In 1646 he worked for the last Ming emperor Yongli as a "folk master" and the year after as a mandarin.
He was involved in the revision of the Chinese calendar.
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