Alessandro Valignano

Alessandro Valignano, (Mandarin: 范禮安 Fàn Lǐ’ān) (Februari 1539 - 20 Januari 1606 [1] Diarsipkan 2005-12-20 di Wayback Machine.), merupakan seorang misionaris Yesuit yang lahir di Chieti, bagian dari Kerajaan Naples, yang membantu mengenalkan Katolik di Timur Jauh, khususnya Jepang.

Valignano bergabung dengan Serikat Yesus pada 1566, dan dikirim ke Asia Timur pada 1573.

Referensi

Boxer, C.R.; The Christian Century in Japan, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951
Braga, J.M.; "The Panegyric of Alexander Valignano, S.J." In Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 5, No. 2. (Jul., 1942), pp. 523–535
Cooper, Michael S.J.; Rodrigues the Interpreter, New York: Weatherhill, 1974
Moran, J.F.; The Japanese and the Jesuits, London: Routledge, 1993
Murakami, Naojiro; "The Jesuit Seminary of Azuchi" Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 6, No. 1/2. (1943), pp. 370–374
Schutte, Josef Franz S.J.; Valignano's Mission Principles for Japan, St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1980
Valignano, Alessandro 1584, "Historia del Principo y Progresso de la Compania de Jesus en las Indias Orientales (1542-64)" ("History of the Beginnings and Progress of the Society of Jesus in the East Indies (1542-64)")
Valignano, Alessandro 1586, Catechismus christianae fidei. Lisbon: Antonius Riberius (very rare work; but wholly included in Antonio Possevino, Bibliotheca Selecta Qua Agitur De Ratione Studiorum in Historia, in Disciplinis, in Salutem Omnium Procuranda. Rome: Typographia Apostolica Vaticana, 1593. See Urs App, The Birth of Orientalism, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-8122-4261-4), pp. 18–24, 139-146 on the important role of this work of Valignano (version included in the Bibliotheca selecta of Antonio Possevino, 1593) in the European reception of Asian religions.
Timeline of Valignano biography Diarsipkan 2009-05-05 di Wayback Machine.