Author Biography
Contributor Biography - English Mauro Maggi, born in Como in 1957, is associate professor of Iranian philology at the University of Rome La Sapienza. His research focuses chiefly on the Khotanese language and literature but also extends to Early New Persian. Besides a number of articles in scholarly journals and multi-author works, he has published The Khotanese Karmavibha?ga (Rome 1995) and Pelliot chinois 2928: a Khotanese love story (Rome 1997).Paola Orsatti, born in Rome in 1956, is associate professor of Persian language and literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Her research focuses chiefly on the history of the Persian language, as well as on Persian literature and the history of Oriental studies in Europe. Besides a number of articles in scholarly journals, she has published Il fondo Borgia della Biblioteca Vaticana e gli studi orientali a Roma tra Sette e Ottocento (Rome 1996) and Appunti per una storia della lingua neopersiana (Rome 2007).
