Paola Orsatti
Research Interests: History of classical Persian literature, especially narrative literature in poetry; History of the Persian language (New Persian)
Paola Orsatti is associate professor of Persian Language and Literature at Rome University Sapienza, where she teaches for both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research focuses chiefly on the history of the Persian language as well as on Persian classical literature, the history of Persian studies in Italy and Europe, the history of Oriental manuscript collections and paleography and codicology of Islamic manuscripts. Besides a number of articles in scholarly journals, she has published: Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition. Two Characters: Farhād and Turandot (Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2019); Appunti per una storia della lingua neopersiana. Parte I: parte generale – fonologia – la più antica documentazione (Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2007); and Il fondo Borgia della Biblioteca Vaticana e gli studi orientali a Roma tra Sette e Ottocento (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1996). Together with Mauro Maggi she edited the volume The Persian language in history (Wiesbaden, Reichert, 2011); and, with Daniela Meneghini, Corso di lingua persiana (Milano, Hoepli, 2012).