Prospero Intorcetta was born in
Piazza Armerina,
Sicily, on August 28, 1625.He joined the Jesuit order in 1642. Traveling with the
Flemish Jesuit
Philippe Couplet, he reached China in 1659. There, he mostly worked in the
Jiangnan region around the lower
Yangtze River. In 1665, he was exiled to Canton with 25 other missionaries; he returned to Rome in 1669 and travelled back to Hangzhou in 1676. ==Works==