2018年 敬文社
イタリア語、フランス語の翻訳出版に伴い、シドッティ遺骨発見の章を追加して、増補版を出版！
With the publication of translation in Italian and French, an expanded Japanese edition was published with the addition of a chapter on finding Sdotti’s remains!
埋葬からちょうど300年後の2014年夏、東京文京区の切支丹屋敷跡から発掘された遺骨が国立科学博物館のDNA鑑定で、イタリア人宣教師シドッテイのものを確定され、大きな驚きが世界を駆け巡った。はるかローマから屋久島、長崎、そして江戸へ。新井白石に「羅馬人に出会い候こと、一生の奇会たるべく候」と言わしめ、『西洋紀聞』を書かせたシドッティは、身の回りの世話をしていた老夫婦に洗礼を授けた罪で切支丹屋敷敷地内の地下牢のなかで47歳の生涯を終えた。彼の宣教師としての壮絶な生涯が、３世紀の歳月を経て、ここに蘇る。
Just 300 years after the burial, in the summer of 2014, the remains excavated from the site of a Christian mansion in Tokyo were confirmed by the National Museum of Nature and Science as belonging to the Italian missionary Sidotti, and a big surprise ran around the world. Sidotti arrived Edo from far away from Roma via Yakushima and Nagasaki and told Arai Hakuseki that “meeting the Roman is a rare encounter in a lifetime” and wrote Seiyo Kibun, Western matters. Sidotti died in a dungeon in the Chiritian mansion for baptizing an elderly couple who was taking care of his surroundings. His spectacular missionary life revives here after three centuries.