Simone CRISTOFORETTI

Personal Data

 

 

Simone CRISTOFORETTI

born in Rovereto (TN) on 23/11/1967

Permanent address: Avio (TN), Piazza Roma 10, 38063

Current Address: Cannaregio 3168 - 30121 Venice (Italy) (c/o Scarcia)

Fiscal Code: CRSSMN67S23H612Y

Citizenship: ITALIAN

tel.: 346 22 06 326

e-mail: cristoforetti@unive.it

http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=82514&pid=5591703
http://unive.academia.edu/SimoneCristoforetti

Education

1994-1998

Ph.D. in Iranian Studies at the University of Neapolis (now "L'Orientale"). Title of the dissertation: "La celebrazione della festa iranica del sade in ambiente cortese tra Khorasan e Iraq, secc. IX-XII" (The court celebration of the Iranian Sade festival between Khorasan and Iraq in IXth-XIIth centuries). Tutor: Prof. Gianroberto Scarcia.

1986-1993

Bachelor in Oriental Languages and Literature (Iranian) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Graduation Score: 110/110 cum laude.

1981-1986

High school degree at the "A. Rosmini" High School in Rovereto (TN).

2001 - Certificate in Gujarati language at the Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente of Rome.

Research languages: Farsi/Dari, Arabic, Latin, Turkish.

 

Appointments

2022 (February 7) - 2033 (February 7)

National Scientific qualification for Full Professorship (disciplinary field of 10/N1 - Ancient Near Eastern, Middle Eastern and African cultures).

 

since 2020 (October 1)

Associate Professor (History of Irano-Islamic Civilization) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy), Dept. of Asian and North-African Studies.

2005 (January 1) - 2020 (Sept. 30)

Assistant Professor (History of Irano-Islamic Civilization) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy), Dept. of Asian and North-African Studies.

2004-2005

Persian language course at the Oriental Languages School of the Italian Institute for Africa and the East of Rome (2nd year).

2003-2004

Persian language course at the Oriental Languages School at the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient of Rome (1st and 3rd year).

2003 January 1 - April 15

Researcher at the Center for Islamic Studies of the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient of Rome, within the project "L’Islam nell’Oceano Indiano: sincretismi e interazioni" (Islam in the Indian Ocean: syncretism and interactions).

2002-2003

Persian language course at the Oriental Languages School of the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient of Rome (1st and 2nd year).

2002 December 2 - 13

Lectures on the "Islamic Festivities" and "Taxes revenue in the Muslim Countries" at the University of Trieste.

2001 November 20-30

Lectures on the "Feasts and ceremonies in Turkey" and "Taxes revenue in the Muslim Countries" at the University of Trieste.

 

Teaching activities

a.y. 2022 / 2023 – 5 courses

* IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN FROM MONARCHIES TO REVOLUTIONS (6 cfu) [LM 2540]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 4040]

* TRADITIONS, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND RELIGION IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD (6 cfu) [LM 4110]

* HISTORY OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST FROM MUHAMMAD TO CONTEMPORARY AGE (6 cfu) [LT 2850]

 

a.y. 2021 / 2022 – 5 courses

* IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN FROM MONARCHIES TO REVOLUTIONS (6 cfu) [LM 2540]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 4040]

* TRADITIONS, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND RELIGION IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD (6 cfu) [LM 4110]

* HISTORY OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST FROM MUHAMMAD TO CONTEMPORARY AGE (6 cfu) [LT 2850]

 

a.y. 2020 / 2021 – 5 courses

* IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN FROM MONARCHIES TO REVOLUTIONS (6 cfu) [LM 2540]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 4040]

* HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF MUSLIM SOCIETIES (6 cfu) [LT 6020]

* HISTORY OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST FROM MUHAMMAD TO CONTEMPORARY AGE (6 cfu) [LT 2850]

 

a.y. 2019 / 2020 – 3 courses

* IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN FROM MONARCHIES TO REVOLUTIONS (6 cfu) [LM 2540]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 4040]

 

a.y. 2018 / 2019 - 3 courses

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 4040]

* HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF MUSLIM SOCIETIES (6 cfu) [LT 6020]

 

a.y. 2017 / 2018 - courses n.: 4

* SACRED SCRIPTURES AND CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL IDEALS [LM 2270]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 4040]

* HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF MUSLIM SOCIETIES (6 cfu) [LT 6020]

 

a.y. 2016 / 2017 - courses n.: 4

* NATIONAL IDENTITY AND STATE BUILDING (6 cfu) [LM 2270]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT4 040]

* HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF MUSLIM SOCIETIES (6 cfu) [LT 6020]

a.y. 2015 / 2016 - courses n.: 3

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT 0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT4 040]

* HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF MUSLIM SOCIETIES (6 cfu) [LT 6020]

a.y. 2014 / 2015 - courses n.: 3

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT4040]

* HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF MUSLIM SOCIETIES (6 cfu) [LT 6020]

Seminar and tutoring activities: Coordinator of the didactic seminar meeting for the Doctorate in Studies on Asia and Africa - "Historiographies".

a.y. 2013 / 2014 - courses n.: 2

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT4040]

Seminar and tutoring activities: Coordinator of the didactic seminar meeting for the Doctorate in Studies on Asia and Africa - "Historiographies" (26-27-28 marzo 2014)

 

a.y. 2012 / 2013 - courses n.: 2

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT0690]

* RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT4040]

a.y. 2011 / 2012 - courses n.: 2

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT0690]

* HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF ASIA MOD. 2 (6 su 12 cfu) [LT0720]

 

a.y. 2010 / 2011 - courses n.: 5

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA 1 (6 cfu) [LM1290]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA 2 (6 cfu) [LM1300]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LT0690]

* HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF ASIA (12 cfu) [LT0720]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA (6 cfu) [LM2030]

 

a.y. 2009 / 2010 - courses n.: 3

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA 1 (6 cfu) [LM1290]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA 2 (6 cfu) [LM1300]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA MOD. 1 (5 cfu) [L75501]

a.y. 2008 / 2009 - courses n.: 2

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA 1 [LM1290]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA MOD. 1 [L75501]

a.y. 2007 / 2008 - courses n.: 4

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA MOD. 1 [L75501]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA MOD. 2 [L75502]

* HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST 1 SP [L74357]

* HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST 2 SP [L74358]

a.y. 2006 / 2007 - courses n.: 6

* PERSIAN LITERATURE SP 1 [L74129]

* PERSIAN LITERATURE SP 2 [L74130]

* PERSIAN LANGUAGE 1 SP [L74168]

* PERSIAN LANGUAGE 2 SP [L74169]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA MOD. 1 [L75501]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA MOD. 2 [L75502]

a.y. 2003 / 2004 - courses n.: 1

* PERSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (Degree Course in History and Civilization of the Orient and the Mediterranean), Adjunct Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Letters and Philosophy.

a.y. 2002 / 2003 - courses n.: 1

* PERSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (Degree Course in History and Civilization of the Orient and the Mediterranean), Adjunct Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Letters and Philosophy.

a.y. 2001 / 2002 - courses n.: 1

* PERSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (Degree Course in History and Civilization of the Orient and the Mediterranean), Adjunct Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Letters and Philosophy.

 

* PERSIAN LITERATURE SP 1 [L74129]

* PERSIAN LITERATURE SP 2 [L74130]

* PERSIAN LANGUAGE 1 SP [L74168]

* PERSIAN LANGUAGE 2 SP [L74169]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA MOD. 1 [L75501]

* HISTORY OF IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA MOD. 2 [L75502]

 

Research activities

Project proposal under review

Castles, Fields, and Herds: The Interaction of Ismailis, Sunnis, and Mongols in Eastern Iran.
The project aims to explore the symbiotic relationship that links fortified settlements to the countryside in Quhistān (Eastern Iran) in the age of the Ismaili apogee. We will bring together competences from Islamic historical studies, archaeology, and anthropology to investigate the rise, the development and the abandonment of two different modes of anthropization that dominated Quhistān between the 11th and 13th century.

2022 (January 1) - 2024 (December 31)

Supervisor of the "PON Ricerca e Innovazione 2014-2020" Project titled Italian Arabic-speaking environments and communities: tools for the promotion of sustainable development (ACAI), Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice. The project aims to develop a package of modules and materials for the integration of environmental sensitivity of recently immigrated Arabic-speaking communities in Italy with Italian environmental perspectives as defined in the National Strategy for Development Sustainable (also known as Green Transition), in order to promote development sustainable in a family and work environment. To achieve this aim, the researcher Dr. Massimiliano Borroni will undertake a study of the historical evolution of environmental concepts in the Arab-speaking world that allows us to outline a precise picture of the current situation.

2019 (April 1) - 2021 (December 31)

Supervisor of the Post-Doc Project Networks of Science and Waters: the diffusion of traditional irrigation techniques in the Islamic world, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice (MAP project). The project entails an in-depth mapping of hydrological competences and knowledge of irrigation techniques in Arabic sources of the Islamic age, from the seventh until the thirteenth century. I am the project leader and supervisor of post-doctoral researcher Dr. Massimiliano Borroni.

2019 (September) - 2020 (December)
Supervisor for Marie-Curie Fellow Prof. Dr. Ahmad Guliyev. Project: SAFVEN West meets East in Venice: Cross-cultural interactions and reciprocal influences between the Safavids and Venetians.

2019 (June 15 - December 15)
Supervisor for the visiting scholar Prof. Bruno Pomara (Universitad de Valencia). Project: "La diaspora dei Moriscos negli stati italiani della prima età moderna" ("Moriscos' Diaspora through Italian States in the Early Modern Age")

 

Organization, direction and coordination of, or participation in, national and international research groups

 
since 2017
Member of the Biruni Study Group, a joint research initiative with Prof. Stefano Barontini (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Brescia) on traditional irrigation and water management techniques in the Islamic world.

2017-2019

Land behind Mosul: settlement, landscape and material culture of the Islamic period in Northern Iraq, in cooperation with Cristina Tonghini (Ca’ Foscari), Miroslav Melčák (Czech Academy of Sciences), and others.
The project is a specific research chapter within the “Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project” conducted by the “Missione Archeologica Italiana in Assiria” (MAIA, Italian Archaeological Mission in Assyria) of the University of Udine. In this context, the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice is in charge of the study of the Islamic period. The main objective of the “Land behind Mosul” Project is to study settlement dynamics, material culture, land and resources management of a large area located north-east of Mosul, from the Arab conquest to the end of the Ottoman period.

2014-2016
Survey on Neo-Persian Sources on the Fortress of Urfa, within the MAAEE Archaelogical Project "Ricostruire la frontiera: la cittadella di Urfa" (Rebuilding the border: the citadel of Urfa), led by Cristina Tonghini (Ca’ Foscari Univesity of Venice).

since 2014

Editor of the new edition of the Italian complete translation of Ferdowsi's Shāhnāmeh by Italo Pizzi (The Book of Kings) in collaboration with the University of Mashhad; the new edition will contain cross-references to the Shāhnāmeh ed. by J. Khāleghi-Motlagh and is accompanied by the Persian text of the Calcutta's ed. by Turner Macan. Project supervisor: Prof. Gianroberto Scarcia. Project entirely founded by کمیتهٔ فرهنگ و تمدن اسلام و ایران (Committee for Islamic and Iranian Culture and Civilization) of I.R. of Iran.

2012 (October 1) - 2014 (October 1)

Responsible of the Ca' foscari University of Venice Project titled:
"Regesto completo delle fonti in lingua araba sul capodanno iranico (Nawrūz) in età abbaside (750-1258)" (A complete index of Abbasid literary sources in Arabic language regarding the Iranian New-year festival of Nawrūz).

2011-2012

Member of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice Project titled: "Digital edition of Il viaggio di Messer Marco Polo" (G. B. Ramusio, Navigationi et viaggi, II, 1559) led by Eugenio Burgio (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

 

Participation as a speaker at national and international congresses and conferences

2022

● 13th December - A Hard Row to How. Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World (622-1250 CE), from Ferghana to the Fayyum (Oxford - St. Anthony College, 12th-14th Dec. 2022). Key lecture titled "Distorted Ismailis and Unseen Castles How Moving our Viewpoints Clears Mirages", keynote lecture given at Corpus Christi College - Oxford.

● 20th October - Science, philosophy and literature in the Iranian world from Gundishapur to the present day (Bologna - Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) and Department of Cultural Heritage - 20th-21st Oct. 2022). Lecture titled "The Risāla dar taḥqīq-i nowrūz by Ismāʿīl Khātūnābādī".

2019

● 11th January - The scarlet light of time. The Scarcia-Amoretti Fund and our memory of Gianroberto Scarcia (organizer); Images of Persia from the archive of Gianroberto Scarcia (speech) - Pontifical Oriental Institute (Rome).

2018

● 1st June - Iranshahr: an idea of empire from late antiquity to the present day - Serughetti La Porta Foundation (Viale papa Giovanni XXIII, 30 - Bergamo).

2017

● 10th May (20 ordibehesht 1396) -

معرفی گاهشماری یزدگردی و طرح یک نظریه درباره آن

("The yazdgardi calendar system: an opinion on it") - Lecture given at the Department of History of the "Ferdowsi" University of Mashhad (Iran).

● 7th May (17th Ordibehesht 1396) -

معرفی جلد اول شاهنامهٔ فردوسی همراه با ترجمهٔ منظوم ایتالیایی به قلم استاد ایتالو پیتزی

(Presentation of the first volume of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and its Italian poetic translation by Italo Pizzi) - Presentation given during the شصت وهشتمین نشست ماهانهٔ فرهنگستان (LXVIII monthly session of the Academy) at the Academy of Letters (Farhangestan) in Tehran (Iran).

● 4th April - Venice – Department of Studies on Asia and Mediterranean Africa - Ca' Cappello (10.30 am) - Presentation of and debate on: The Last Caliphate. The organization of the Islamic State in the Middle East, with the curator Massimiliano Trentin (Univ. of Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum") and one of the authors: Barbara De Poli (Univ. of Venice "Ca' Foscari").

● 2nd March - Speech at the International Conference “Le affinità imperfette” – elementi letterari ed artistici della cultura italiana e persiana a confronto (The imperfect affinities" - literary and artistic elements of Italian and Persian culture in comparison), Bologna 2-3 May 2017, with a communication entitles “Il Libro dei Re” di Firdusi tra filologia e resa poetica: spazi per un approccio testuale ampio (“The Book of Kings" by Firdusi between philology and poetic rendering: spaces for a broad textual approach.)

 

2015

● 8th December (17 ādhar 1394) - معرفی پژوهشی دربارهٔ نوروز در ادب عربی دورهٔ عباسی

("Presentation of the research project on Nowruz in the Arabic literature of the Abbasid Age") - speech at Khāne-ye Ketāb, Kh. Enqelāb 1080, Tehrann(Iran). http://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/83834

2014

● 29th September (7 mehr 1393) - ایرانشناسی و اسلامشناسی در ایتالیا ('Iran and Islam in Italy') - Speech at Khāne-ye Ketāb, Kh. Enqelāb 1080, Tehran.

http://nasimonline.ir/print/932955

● 13th August 2014 – Lecture at the II Colóquio Internacional de Estudos Árabes e Islâmicos held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Federal University of Belo Horizonte (Brazil), with a contribution entitled "Historiography and Historical Chronology: Problems of a relationship not taken for granted".

● 7th February - "Iran: historical dimension and cultural geography" - lecture held at the Laformadellibro Bookshop in Padua.

● 1st April - Contribution at the day dedicated to Persian Music and Culture in the Ottoman world, organized by Giovanni De Zorzi (University of Venice "Ca' Foscari"), with a lecture entitled “Ashik Kerib: menestrelli sul limes” ("Ashik Kerib: minstrels on the limes.").

2013
● 21st March - Lecture at the I Colóquio Internacional de Estudos Árabes e Islâmicos held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Federal University of Belo Horizonte (Brazil), with a contribution entitled "The eras of Persia: historical periodization and political function of the chronological factor".

2008

● 17th November - Contribution at the International Convention in memory of B. I. Marshak held in St. Petersburg (16-17-18 Nov. 2008) with a lecture entitled: “Talking about Sīmurġ and Ṭāq-i Bustān with Boris I. Marshak. (On the so-called Sīmurġ)”.

2007

● 4th December – Culture “transnazionali”: il mondo iranico e il cosmopolitismo indo-persiano ("Transnational" cultures: the Iranian world and Indo-Persian cosmopolitanism). Third meeting of the program with the theme Travel-Persons. Travelling words (Four meetings to talk about mondiality) promoted by the Centre for mondiality - Vallagarina, c/o CFP "Veronesi", P.le Orsi, 1, Rovereto (TN). The meeting - held in Rovereto - took place in the following way: workshop with students (morning) at the Liceo Sociopsycho-Pedagogic "Filzi"; workshop with teachers 14.30-17.00 at the CFP "Veronesi"; public meeting 17.30-19.30 at the CFP "Veronesi".

● 29th May – Contribution at the Convegno in ricordo di Maria Teresa Lucidi “...alla maniera di” (Conference in memory of Maria Teresa Lucidi) , University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, 28-30 May 2007, with a lecture entitled “Testimonianze estremo-orientali a Samarcanda - Ieri” (Far Eastern Remains in Samarkand – Yesterday).

2006

● 23th May – Contribution at Il mondo degli altri. Una giornata dedicata alla conoscenza dei popoli attraverso le loro tradizioni letterarie (The world of others. A day dedicated to the knowledge of peoples through their literary traditions) with a lecture entitled “Il Natale della Luce” (The Birthday of Light). Auditorium Palazzo Brasavola, Avio (TN).

2005

● 8th October – Contribution at the sixth international conference Da Ulisse a... Il mare e gli abissi marini (From Odysseus to... The sea and the abysses), Imperia, 6-8 October 2005, with a lecture entitled Sott’acqua e sotto terra: un Posidone iranico (Underwater and underground: an Iranian Poseidon)

● 14th March – Contribution at the International conference Nawrūz in Venice. New perspectives on the pre-Islamic paintings at Afrāsyāb (Samarkand), with a lecture entitled: Afrāsyāb toponym and Afrāsyāb eponym: considerations on the re-emerging plausibility of a lectio facilior.

2004

● 3rd November - “Proposal for a new interpretation of the Northern Wall of the “Hall of the Ambassadors” at Afrasyab” (M. Compareti - S. Cristoforetti), International Conference dedicated to the Centenary of Aleksandr Markovich Belenitsky - St. Petersburg, Nov. 2-5,

● 28th October – Contribution to the Conference Incontro di Studio della Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni (Study Meeting of the Italian Society of the History of Religions) (Rome, 28-29 October 2004) on “Power and religion in the Indo-Mediterranean world between Hellenism and Late Antiquity” with a lecture entitled “L’antitesi Diocleziano-Martiri nel cristianesimo copto” (The Diocletian-Martyrs antithesis in Coptic Christianity).

● 7th October – Contribution to the fifth international conference Da Ulisse a... La città e il mare (From Odysseus to... The city and the sea), with a lecture entitled Essere città sul Caspio e sull’Aral (Being a city on the Caspian and the Aral)

2003

● 10th October – Contribution to the fourth international conference Da Ulisse a... Il viaggio nelle terre d’oltremare (From Odysseus to... The journey to the overseas lands), Imperia 9-11 occtober 2003, with a lecture entitled Persiani intorno all’Africa (Persians around Africa).

● 6th October – Contribution to the V European Conference of Iranian Studies, Ravenna 6-11 October 2003, with a lecture entitled Ipotesi sulla kabīsa sistanica di Khalaf b. Aḥmad (Hypothesis on the Sistanic kabisa of Khalaf b. Ahmad).

● 27th September – Contribution to the international conference The Bukhara oasis. Antiquity and Middle Ages, Bukhara 26-27 September 2003, with a lecture entitled Calendrical data from Narshakhī’s Ta’rīkh-i Bukhārā.

2002

● 18th October – Contribution to the international conference La Persia e Bisanzio (Persia and Byzantium), Rome 14-18 October 2002 (Italian istitute for Africa and the Orient, National Academy of the Lincei), with a lecture entitled Legno della croce e Peonia bizantina: un rimedio iranico all’epilessia tra Avicenna, Bīrūnī e Khāqānī (Wood of the Cross and Byzantine Peony: an Iranian remedy for epilepsy between Avicenna, Bīrūnī and Khāqānī).

● 10th October – Contribution to the international conference Da Ulisse a...Il viaggio per mare nell’immaginario letterario e artistico (From Ulysses to...The sea voyage in the literary and artistic imagination), Imperia 10-12 October 2002, with a lecture entitled L’islām oltre le Colonne d’Ercole e la demitizzazione dell’ignoto (Islam beyond the Pillars of Hercules and the demythization of the unknown).

● 19th June – Contribution to the study day La finzione tra stilizzazione e mistificazione. Conversazione tra russisti e non solo... (Fiction between stylization and mystification. Conversation among Russians and others...) held at the Department of Eurasian Studies at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice on 18-19 June 2002 with a lecture entitled “Tempo rubato e tempo addizionato: il tredicesimo mese dei persiani” (Time stolen and time added: the thirteenth month of the Persians).

2001

● 31st May – Presentation of the paper “Il fiume, la luce e l’albero della croce” (The river, the light and the tree of the cross) at the study day L’albero della croce: prima, dopo, nell’esilio e nell’islam (The tree of the cross: before, after, in exile and Islam), organized by the Department of Eurasian Studies of the University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Venice 31 May -1 June 2001.

● 11th April – Discussion of the paper “Halīla come termine rituale presso i Sulaymānī nel Garmsīr del Kirmān?” (Halila as ritual word among the Sulaymanis of Garmsir in Kirman?) during the international conference entitled Middle Iranian Lexicography, organized by the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient and the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome 9-11 April 2001.

 

National and international prizes and awards for research activities

2005 June 16

National prize “Mario Di Nola 2005” (historical subjects) for the book titled "Il Natale della Luce", Mimesis Ed., Milano 2002.

2002 February 13

Scholarship “Raffaele Pettazzoni 2001-2002” at Accademia Nazionale del Lincei of Rome with a project on the Zoroastrian survivances in the modern Islamic world: the Farwardgān in Abiyāneh (Iran).

 

Participation in editorial boards of magazines, publishing series, encyclopaedias and treatises

Since 2021

Member of the Editorial Board of the Marco Polo. Studies in Global Europe-Asia Connections Series, published by the Marco Polo Research Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections (University Ca' Foscari of Venice - Italy) with ISSN: 2785-589

Editors-in-Chief:

Elisabetta Ragagnin, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy.

Sabrina Rastelli, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy.

https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/collane/marco-polo-research-centre/

Since 2021

Member of the Advisory Board of the Brill Series with ISSN: 2773-1030, titled: Islamicate and Ibero-American World Connections.

Editorial Board:

Élodie Brun, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México

Fernando Camacho Padilla, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Raffaele Mauriello, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

https://brill.com/page/iiwc

Since 2014

Member of the Editorial Board of EURASIATICA. Quaderni di Studi su Balcani, Caucaso e Asia Centrale, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Italy.

Editors-in-Chief:
Aldo Ferrari, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Italy.
Stefano Riccioni, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Italy.

https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/collane/eurasiatica/

 

Since 2012

Editorial consultant for the Brazilian magazine Âyiné. International Journal of Islamic Societies and Cultures;

www.ayine.com.br

 

Organizational tasks

Offices and tasks assigned by the Departments and the University, participation in commissions and committees

Since 1st January 2022 – Scientific Responsible of the Research Contract Rep. N. 4619 del 30/11/2021 CUP H75F21001930005 founded by PON “Ricerca e Innovazione” 2014-2020, Azione IV.6 “contratti di ricerca su tematiche green”.

1st April 2019 - 31 December 2021 – Supervisor of the research fellow Dott. Massimiliano Borroni for the project "Science and water networks: the dissemination of traditional irrigation techniques in the Islamic world" (MAP departmental cheque)

a.y. 2022 / 2023 - Member of the LICAAM Faculty Board; Member of the DSAAM Doctoral Board; Member of the LICAAM QA Committee; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee; Coordinator of the Master's Degree Programme in Language and Civilisation of Asia and Mediterranean Africa

a.y. 2021 / 2022 - Member of the LICAAM Faculty Board; Member of the DSAAM Doctoral Board; Member of the LICAAM QA Committee; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee; Coordinator of the Master's Degree Programme in Language and Civilisation of Asia and Mediterranean Africa

a.y. 2020 / 2021 - Member of the LICAAM Faculty Board; Member of the DSAAM Doctoral Board; Member of the LICAAM QA Committee; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee

a.y. 2019 / 2020 - Member of the LICAAM Faculty Board; Member of the DSAAM Doctoral Board; Member of the LICAAM QA Committee; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee

a.y. 2018 / 2019 - Member of the LICAAM Faculty board; Member of the DSAAM Doctoral College; Member of the examining PhD committee in Philology and History of the Ancient World (University of Rome La Sapienza), XXXI cycle (30-09-2019)

a.y. 2017 / 2018 - Member of the LICAAM Faculty Board; Member of the DSAAM Doctoral Board; Member of the LICAAM QA Committee; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee

a.y. 2016 / 2017 – Member of the DSAAM doctoral college; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee

a.y. 2015 / 2016 - Member of the DSAAM Doctoral College; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee; Member of the examination commission of the Doctorate "Turkey, Iran, Central Asia", XXVIII cycle, University of Naples “L’Orientale” (07-03-2016)

a.y. 2014 / 2015 - Member of the DSAAM Doctoral College; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee

a.y. 2013 / 2014 - Member of the DSAAM Doctoral College; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee; member of the examination commission of the Doctorate "Byzantium and Eurasia (V-XVI centuries)" University of Bologna (03-09-2014)

a.y. 2012 / 2013 - Member of the DSAAM Doctoral College; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee; member of the examination commission of the Doctorate “Asia and Africa Studies of the DSAAM, XXIX cycle (25-06-2013/01-07-2013); Member of the examination board of the Ca’ Foscari International College (07-05-2013)

a.y. 2011 / 2012 - Member of the DSAAM Doctoral College; Member of the DSAAM Research Committee; member of the examination commission of the Doctorate "Languages, Cultures, and Societies", course "Studies on the Near East and Southern Asia" DSAAM (30-03-2012)

a.y. 2010 / 2011 - Member of the DSAAM Doctoral College; Member of the examination commission of the Doctorate "Turkey, Iran and Central Asia", VIl cycle, University of Naples "L'Orientale" (19-04-2011)

a.y. 2009 / 2010 - Member of the DSAAM Doctoral College; Member of the examination commission of the Doctorate “Philology and literature of the ancient Near East and pre-Islamic Iran”, University La Sapienza of Rome (13-10-2010)

a.y. 2008 / 2009 - Member of the examination commission of the Doctorate “Islamic civilization: History and Philology”, University La Sapienza of Rome.

 

Publications

Forthcoming

● "La Risāla dar taḥqīq-i Nawrūz di Ismāʿīl Khātūnābādī" ["The Risāla dar taḥqīq-i Nawrūz by Ismāʿīl Khātūnābādī"].

● "Immagini di Persia dall’archivio di Gianroberto Scarcia]" ["Images of Persia from the archive of Gianroberto Scarcia"].

 

Published

2023.a

● La guerra dell'Urss in Afghanistan. (Collana: Guerre. Storia dei conflitti del mondo moderno, n. 9). Milano: La Gazzetta dello Sport.

2023.b

● La guerra tra Iran e Iraq. (Collana: Guerre. Storia dei conflitti del mondo moderno, n. 12). Milano: La Gazzetta dello Sport.

2023.c

● Una poesia quasi manichea. [Prefazione a] Mohammad Reza Shafi‘i Kadkani, Il secondo millennio della gazzella di montagna. Trad. it. di N. Alizadeh Kashani. Rimini: Il cerchio, 2022, pp. 5-6.

2022

به‌هم‌بافتن سنت و مدرنیته: تار روش سیدحسن تقی‌زاده و پود تقویم یزدگردی. ●

("Sewing Tradition and Modernity Together: the Fabric of S. Hasan Taqizadeh’s Method and the Thread of the Yazdegardi Calendar"). In: F. Soleyman-Nezhad (ed.),

مشروطه‌خواه لیبرال: سیدحسن تقی‌زاده.

(The Liberal Constitutionalist: Seyyed Hasan Taqizadeh). Tehran: Nashr-e Agar, 1401 / 2022 [پدران بنیانگذار ایران جدید، ۱ / Founding Fathers of Modern Iran, Vol. 1].

2021.a

● "Ruhā in the Persian sources: an elusive presence". In: C. Tonghini (ed.), From Edessa to Urfa: The Fortification of the Citadel. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, pp. 57–61.

2021.b

● [with L. Karami], "In memoriam Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti (26 Novembre 1938-19 September 2020): Teacher, Author, and Scholar of Islamic and Iranian Studies". Iranian Studies 54, Nos. 3-4, pp. 691-695.

2021.c

● "La storia del villaggio distrutto e poi riedificato nello Shāhnāma: un brano di polemistica anti-mazdakita?" ["The story of the village destroyed and then rebuilt in the Shāhnāma: a piece of anti-Mazdakite polemic?"]. In: Come la freccia di Ārash. Il lungo viaggio della narrazione in Iran: forme e motivi dalle origini all'epoca contemporanea.N. Noroz i (ed.), pp. 157-184. Milano: Mimesis. [Indo-Iranica et Orientalia. Series Lazur 24]

http://hdl.handle.net/10278/3744594

2021.d

● Gengis Khan. (Collana: I signori della guerra n. 15). Milano: La Gazzetta dello Sport.

2021.e

● Saladino. (Collana: I signori della guerra n. 20). Milano: La Gazzetta dello Sport.

2020.a

● San Giorgio in Levante. Il culto del santo cavaliere nella regione di Antiochia. (St. George in the Levant. The cult of the holy knight in the region of Antioch.) Reggio Calabria: Città del Sole Edizioni (335 pp.).

2020.b

● [with M. Sesana] "When did the East-Iranian Quhistāni fortresses become “Ismaili”? New perspectives for a History of Ismailism". Journal of Asian Civilizations, Vol. 43, No. 2, December 2020, pp. 157–199.

2020.c

● [with Maziyar Ghiabi] In Memoriam Gianroberto Scarcia (11 March 1933—1 July 2018), Italian Iranologist. Iranian Studies, On-line publication DOI: 10.1080/00210862.2019.1705567

2020.d

● "Beyond Recovery Towards Continuity in the Qajar Perception of the Past: the Case of Āthār-e ʿAjam (Antiquities of the Persians) by Forṣat al-Dowla Shirāzi". In: L. Capezzone (ed.), Before Archaeology. The Meaning of the Past in the Islamic Pre-Modern Thought (and After). [Opere collettanee dell'Atlante del Vicino Oriente antico 1]. Roma: Editoriale Artemide, pp. 177-186.

2020.e

● Prefazione in: A. Crafa, Giuseppe Turrini: Kālidāsa, il Risorgimento e la polemica anticattolica tra Otto e Novecento. Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, pp. 13-17.

2019.a

● "Can traditional knowledge be a sustainable and resilient solution for water management and food security? A case study in Moroccan oases."

In collaboration with: M. Houssni, V. Boselli, J. Kassout, A. Ouallali, and S. Barontini.

2019.b

● "Terraced agroecosystems effectiveness in granting food security. Case study of Larbaa Ayacha basin in Moroccan Rif from a hydrogeological perspective". In collaboration with: A. Ouallali, V. Boselli, H. Aassoumi, M. Houssni, J. Kassout, and H. Briak.

2019.c

● "L’era di Alessandro IV Aegus in un manoscritto pomponiano di fine Quattrocento", in S. Badalkhan, G.P. Basello and M. De Chiara (eds.), Iranian Studies in Honour of Adriano V. Rossi - Part One, Napoli: Unior Press, pp. 197-212.

2018.a

● “Il Libro dei Re” di Firdusi tra filologia e resa poetica: spazi per un approccio testuale ampio. ("The Book of Kings" by Firdusi between philology and poetic rendering: spaces for a broad textual approach.) In: Le affinità imperfette. Elementi letterari ed artistici della cultura italiana e persiana a confronto. A c. di Maurizio Pistoso. Bologna: Paolo Emilio Persiani, 2018, pp. 8-25.

2018.b

● Forword to: A. Dehqān, Viaggio in direzione 270° (Journey in direction 270°). Traduzione dal persiano di M. Marelli. Milano: Jouvence, pp. 7-11.

2017.a

● Abu 'l-Qāsem Ferdowsi, Shāhnāmeh - Il Libro dei Re. Testo poetico persiano dell'edizione Turner Macan recato in endecassillabi italiani da Italo Pizzi. Volume I (The Book of Kings. Persian poetic text of the Turner Macan edition, written in Italian endecassillabi by Italo Pizzi. Volume I). A cura di Simone Cristoforetti (progetto scientifico diretto da Gianroberto Scarcia). Tehran: Chugān, 878 pp.

شاهنامه ابوالقاسم فردوسی/متن فارسی گردآورده به سعی کپتان ترنر مکان ؛ ترجمه منظوم ایتالیایی به قلم ایتالو پیتزی ؛ به کوشش و تصحیح سیمون کریستو فورتی - تحت اشراف علمی و ادبی جانروبرتو اسکارچیا ؛ جلد اول.

ناشر/ چوگان، تهران ۱۳۹۵.

2017.b

● "On the Kabīsa of the Saffarid Amīr Khalaf ibn Aḥmad". Annali di Ca' Foscari (serie orientale), Vol. 53 (giugno 2017), pp. 155-170.

2017.c

● "Ashïk Kerib: menestrelli sul limes." (Ashïk Kerib: minstrels on the limes) Rivista di Studi Indo-Mediterranei. Anno VII (2017). On-line publication.

2017.d

● Foreword: G. Scarcia, Divano Occidentale. Un millennio di poesia persiana. Roma: Viella, pp. 11-14.

2016.a

● [M. Borroni and S. Cristoforetti] An Index of Nayrūz Occurrences in Abbasid Literary Sources. Florence: Phasar Edizioni (208 pp.).

2016.b

● “Cycles and Circumferences: The Tower of Gonbad-e Kāvus as Time-Measuring Monument”. In: S. Pellò (ed.), Borders: Itineraries on the Edges of Iran. (Eurasiatica - Quaderni di Studi su Balcani, Anatolia, Iran, Caucaso e Asia Centrale 5). Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2016, pp. 89-115.

2016.c

● "Mehragān". In: Zoroastrianism (2 voll.). M. Moazami (ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, 2016, Vol. 2, pp. 1588-1597.

2015.a

● [headwords:] “Asini salvatichi”; “Camandu”; “Casibin”; “Chermain”; “Chisi”; “Cobinam”; “Hirach”; “Iasdi”; “Ormus”; “Reobarle”; “Siras”; “Spaan”; “Timocaim”. In: Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Dei viaggi di Messer Marco Polo. Edizione critica digitale a c. di E. Burgio e S. Simion, Venezia (Edizioni Ca' Foscari), 2015.

2015.b

● 'Umar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām, Il libro del Capodanno. Nawrūznāma. Traduzione italiana annotata e accompagnata da un saggio di Simone Cristoforetti. (The New Year's book. Nawrūznāma. Italian translation annotated and accompanied by an essay by Simone Cristoforetti.) Milano: Mimesis, 2015 (157 pp.).

2014

● "On the Era of Yazdegard III and the Cycles of the Iranian Solar Calendar". Annali di Ca' Foscari, Vol. 50, Num. 1 (42), Dicembre 2014, pp.159-172.

2013.a

● “Talking about Sīmurġ and Ṭāq-i Bustān with Boris I. Marshak (on the so-called Sīmurġ)” (S. Cristoforetti & G. Scarcia). In: Asan I. Torgoev and Pavel B. Lurje (eds.), Sogdians, their Precursors, Contemoraries and Heirs (Согдийцы, их предшественники, современники и наследники), Volume in the memory of Boris Il'ich Marshak (1933-2006), St. Petersburg (The State Hermitage Publishers), 2013, pp. 339-352.

2013.b

● “La breve eppur travagliata escursione del Cavalier Chardin nei calendari di Persia” (The short yet troubled Cavalier Chardin's excursion in the Persian calendars). In: M. Compareti, R. Favaro (a cura di), Spigolature all'Onagro Maestro, Venezia (stampato per conto dei curatori), 2013, pp. 71-81.

2013.c

● “Mehragān Festival” (entry for) Encyclopædia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater. On-line publication: June 5, 2013, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mehragan

2013.d

● Introduction to: Ancora introvabile il padrone del silenzio di Gianfranco Vacca, e-Book published by LaRecherche at

http://www.larecherche.it/poesia2punto0_ebook.asp?Id=6

2013.e

● A.S. Cacopardo, Natale pagano. Feste d'inverno nello Hindu Kush (Pagan Christmas. Winter holidays in the Hindu Kush) (Palermo: Sellerio, 2010, p. 476). In: Archivio per l'Antropologia e l'Etnologia, Vol. 143 (2013), pp. 159-161.

2012

● "Il fumo iranico della Pipa di Perm" (The Iranic smoke of the Perm Pipe) (M. Compareti & S. Cristoforetti). In: F. Cret Ciure, V. Nosilia, A. Pavan (a cura di), Mvlta & varia. Studi offerti a Maria Marcella Ferraccioli e Gianfranco Giraudo. Venezia (Biblion edizioni), 2012, pp. 239-250.

2011

● “L'inferno mazdaico: terrifico e transeunte” (Mazdaic hell: terrifying and transient). In: M.C. Migliore, S. Pagani (edd.), Inferni temporanei: testi, studi e figure dell’immaginario infernale nel Medioevo orientale e occidentale, Roma (Carocci) 2011, pp. 105-125.

2010.a

● H. Taqizadeh, Il computo del tempo nell'Iran antico. Edizione riveduta e integrata sulla base delle indicazioni dell'Autore. Introduzione, traduzione e cura di Simone Cristoforetti (The reckoning of time in ancient Iran. Revised and integrated edition based on the Author's indications. Introduction, translation and editing by Simone Cristoforetti.). Roma (Is.I.A.O, Collana Il Nuovo Ramusio, Strumenti 2), 2010 (348 pp.).

2010.b

● “Islamic calendars”, (entry for) Handbook of Medieval Studies. Terms - Methods - Trends. Albrecht Classen (ed.), 3 vols., Berlin, New York (De Gruyter), 2010, pp. 1652-1657.

2010.c

● "Martirio e intercessione di Ḥusayn in due testi poetici persiani" (Martyrdom and intercession of Ḥusayn in two Persian poetic texts). Islamochristiana, 36 (2010), pp. 63-76.

2010.d

● M. Compareti, S. Cristoforetti, G. Scarcia, “Testimonianze d'Asia Orientale a Samarcanda: ieri e oggi”( Witnesses of East Asia in Samarkand: yesterday and today), in P. Fedi, Ch. Silvi Antonini, P. Mortari Vergara Caffarelli, A. Alabiso, D. Sadun, F. Noci, T. Aurizi (a cura di), Alla maniera di... Convegno in ricordo di Maria Teresa Lucidi, (Roma, 28-30 maggio 2007), Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, 2010, pp. 185-202.

2009.a

● “L’antitesi Diocleziano-martiri nel cristianesimo copto” (The Diocletian-Martyrs antithesis in Coptic Christianity). In: Potere e religione nel mondo indo-mediterraneo tra ellenismo e tarda-antichità (Atti dell'Incontro di studio della Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni. Roma 28-29 ottobre 2004). A c. di Gh. Gnoli e G. Sfameni Gasparro, Roma, 2009, pp. 125-135.

2009.b

● “Kabisa”, (entry for) Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. XV-3, ed. E. Yarshater, New York, 2009, pp. 274-276.

2009.c

● "Se (in Iran) 13 = 19". Hiram, 2 (2009), pp. 85-93.

2009.d

● “Zāl”, (entry for) Encyclopædia Iranica (written along with A. Sh. Shahbazi), E. Yarshater (ed.). On-line publication: July 20, 2009, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/zal

2009.e

● “Le nawrūzī selon le Nawrūz-nāma”. Eurasian Studies, VI (2007-2008), pp. 71-95.

2009.f

● “Nowruz in the Iranian Calendar”, (entry for) Encyclopaedia Iranica. On-line publication: Nov. 15, 2009, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/nowruz-iii

2008

● “Le due sezioni sulle feste dei persiani nello Zīj al-mufrad di Abū Jacfar Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥāsib al-Ṭabarī” (The two sections on Persian festivals in the Zīj al-mufrad of Abū Ja'far Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥāsib al-Ṭabarī".). In: Scritti in onore di Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti. A c. di D. Bredi, L. Capezzone, W. Dahmash, L. Rostagno, Roma (vol. II). Roma, 2008, pp. 473-482.

2007.a

● The ‘Hall of the Ambassadors’ paintings in the frame of the calendrical systems of the Iranian world. In: M. Compareti, S. Cristoforetti, The Chinese Scene at Afrāsyāb and the Iranian calendar, (Eurasiatica 78) Venezia (Editrice Cafoscarina), 2007: pp. 33-71.

2007.b

● “L’islamizzazione sulaymānī di una festa iranica (A Sulaymānī Islamization of an Iranian holiday.). (Sada: addenda et detrahenda)”. In: La Mandorla e il Mirabolano. Esotismi, contaminazioni, pittura e Oriente, (Eurasiatica 82), a cura di R. Favaro, Venezia (Editrice Cafoscarina), 2007, pp. 33-53.

2007.c

● “Sott’acqua e sotto terra: un Posidone iranico” (Underwater and underground: an Iranian Poseidon). In: Da Ulisse a... Il viaggio negli abissi marini tra immaginazione e realtà (Atti del VI Convegno Internazionale tenutosi a Imperia, 6-7-8 ottobre 2005), a c. di G. Revelli, (ed. ETS) Pisa, 2007, pp. 141-148.

2006/2007

● “Il mito di Āriš e il “fanciullo divino” di Samarcanda” (The myth of Āriš and the 'divine child' of Samarkand). Folia Orientalia, 42/43, (2006/07), pp. 145-157.

2006.a

● “Afrāsyāb toponimo e Afrāsyāb eponimo: considerazioni sulla riemergente plausibilità di una lectio facilior” (Afrāsyāb toponym and Afrāsyāb eponym: considerations on the re-emergence of an lectio facilior). In: Royal Naurūz in Samarkand. Proceedings of the Conference held in Venice on the pre-Islamic paintings at Afrasiab, a c. di M. Compareti - É. de la Vaissière (Suppl. n. 1 a Rivista degli Studi Orientali, LXXVIII), 2006, pp. 163-171.

2006.b

● “Calendars in Narshakhī’s Ta’rīkh-i Bukhārā”. In: Ancient and Mediaeval culture of the Bukhara oasis. Materials of the Conference based on the joint Uzbek-Italian researches in archaeology and Islamic studies. Bukhara, 26-27 Sept. 2003, eds. Ch. Silvi Antonini, D.K. Mirzaakhmedov, Samarkand-Rome, 2006, pp. 100-103.

2006.c

● “Considerazioni sui trecentosessanta idoli della Kacba preislamica” “Musings on the three hundred and sixty idols of pre-Islamic Ka’ba".. In: Loquentes linguis. Studi linguistici e orientali in onore di/ Linguistic and Oriental Studies in Honour of/ Lingvistikaj kaj orientaj studoj honore al Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti, P.G. Borbone, A. Mengozzi & M. Tosco (edited by/redaktis), Wiesbaden (Harrassowitz Verlag), 2006, pp. 213-222.

2006.d

● “Ipotesi sulla kabīsa sistanica di Khalaf b. Aḥmad” (Hypotheses on the Sistanic kabisa of Khalaf b. Ahmad). In: Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europaea held in Ravenna, 6-11 October 2003. Vol. II: Classical Persian Studies. A. Panaino & R. Zipoli (eds.), Milano (Mimesis), 2006, pp. 33-39.

2005.a

● “Halīla come termine rituale presso i Sulaymānī nel Garmsīr del Kirmān?” (Halila as a ritual word among the Sulaymains of Garmsir in Kirman?). In: Middle Iranian Lexicography. Proceedings of the Conference held in Rome 9-11 April 2001, ed. by Carlo G. Cereti and Mario Maggi (Orientalia Romana 8, Serie Orientale XCVIII, Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente), Roma, 2005, pp. 289-315.

2005.b

● “Il sizdah bedar e il 'pesce d’aprile'” (Sizdah bedar and April’s Fool). In: Scritti in onore di Giovanni M. D’Erme, a c. di M. Bernardini, N. L. Tornesello (Series Minor LXVIII, 2 voll., Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale), Napoli, 2005: I, pp. 321-334.

2004.a

● “Una premessa un po’ più ampia dell’usato” (A somewhat broader premise than the usual”. In: L’Onagro Maestro. Miscellanea di fuochi accesi per Gianroberto Scarcia in occasione del suo LXX sadé, a c. di R. Favaro, S. Cristoforetti, M. Compareti, Venezia (ed. Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina), 2004, pp. 7-15.

2004.b

● “‘Legno della croce’ e ‘Peonia bizantina’: un rimedio iranico all’epilessia tra Avicenna, Bīrūnī e Ḫāqānī” (Wood of the Cross' and 'Byzantine Peony': an Iranian remedy for epilepsy between Avicenna, Bīrūnī and Ḫāqānī). In: La Persia e Bisanzio (Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 201), Roma, 2004, pp. 953-967.

2004.c

● “Il viaggio oltremare del nawrūz e la “canonizzazione” di festività iraniche in ambito sciita” (The overseas journey of nawrūz and the "canonization" of Iranian festivities in the Shiite sphere). In: Da Ulisse a... Il viaggio nelle terre d’oltremare (Atti del Convegno Internazionale tenutosi a Imperia, 9-10-11 ottobre 2003), a c. di G. Revelli, Pisa (ed. ETS), 2004, pp. 243-252.

2004.d

● “Proposal for a new interpretation of the Northern Wall of the “Hall of the Ambassadors” at Afrasyab” (M. Compareti - S. Cristoforetti). In: Central Asia from the Achemenids to the Timurids. Archaeology, History, Ethnology, Culture (Material of an International Conference dedicated to the Centenary of Aleksandr Markovich Belenitsky - St. Petersburg, Nov. 2-5, 2004, ed.-in-ch. V.P. Nikonorov), St. Petersburg, 2004, pp. 205-210.

2004.e

● “Un confine post-sovietico tra l’anno e la settimana” (A post-Soviet border between year and week). Viátor (Annuario del G.E.R.), VIII, 2004, pp. 129-146.

2003.a

● “‘Ā’īn-i īshān’, un lapsus di Kūshyār e il farwardgān di Abiyāna”. In: Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia - Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002, ed. by C. G. Cereti, M. Maggi, E. Provasi, Wiesbaden (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag), 2003, pp. 79-90.

2003.b

● “L’islām oltre le Colonne d’Ercole e la demitizzazione dell’ignoto” (Islām beyond the Pillars of Hercules and the demythization of the unknown). In: Da Ulisse a... Il viaggio per mare nell’immaginario letterario e artistico (Atti del Convegno Internazionale tenutosi a Imperia, 10-11-12 ottobre 2002), a c. di G. Revelli, Pisa (ed. ETS), 2003, pp. 85-93.

2003.c

● Izdilāq: miti e problemi calendariali del fisco islamico (Izdilāq: myths and calendar problems of the Islamic tax authorities), Venezia (Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina), 2003 (190 pp.).

2003.d

● Persiani intorno all’Africa e vicende calendariali. Rassegna bibliografica preliminare intorno al tema della diffusione di festività riconducibili al modello calendariale iranico lungo la costa orientale africana e nel Nord Africa (Persians around Africa and calendar events. Preliminary bibliographic review on the theme of the spread of festivities related to the Iranian calendar model along the African East Coast and in North Africa.) (Egitto, Tunisia, Libia, Algeria, Marocco, fino alla Penisola Iberica), Venezia (Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina), 2003 (32 pp.).

2003.e

● “Il fiume, la luce e l’albero della croce” (The river, the light and the tree of the cross). In: L’albero della Croce (Atti della giornata di studio dal titolo L’albero della croce: prima, dopo, nell’esilio e nell’islam - Venezia, 31 mag.-1 giu. 2001, a c. di R. Favaro), Supplemento di Studi sull’Oriente Cristiano, VII-2, 2003, pp. 29-47.

2003.f

“Tempo rubato e tempo addizionato: il tredicesimo mese dei persiani” (Time stolen and time added: the thirteenth month of the Persians). Viátor (Annuario del G.E.R.), VII, 2003, pp. 191-204.

2002.a

● Il Natale della Luce. Il sada tra Baghdad e Bukhara tra il IX e il XII Secolo (Birthday of Light. The sada between Baghdad and Bukhara between the 9th and 12th centuries.) (Sīmorgγ, Collana di Studi Orientali diretta da A. Panaino), Milano (ed. Mimesis), 2002 (379 pp.).

2002.b

● “Santa Maria del Soccorso a Tiberio” (ristampa). Viátor (Annuario del G.E.R.), VI, 20022, pp. 69-82.

2000.a

● Forme “neopersiane” del calendario “zoroastriano” tra Iran e Transoxiana ("Neopersian" forms of the "Zoroastrian" calendar between Iran and Transoxiana), (Eurasiatica n. 64. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Studi Eurasiatici dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia), Martellago (VE) (Grafiche Biesse Edizioni), 2000 (168 pp.).

2000.b

● "Santa Maria del Soccorso a Tiberio". In: Capri e l'Islām. Studi su Capri, il Mediterraneo, l'Oriente (Atti degli Incontri promossi dall'Associazione Culturale Oebalus), Capri (Ed. La Conchiglia), 20001, pp. 277-295.

1999

● "La "dieta" di Ḍaḥḥāk: un esempio di psicofagia luminosa" (The "diet" of Ḍaḥḥāk: an example of luminous psychophagy). In: Bipolarità imperfette, a c. di G. Scarcia (Eurasiatica n. 56. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Studi Eurasiatici dell’Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia), Venezia (Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina), 1999, pp. 99-124.

1998

● "The Kurds and the sade". IRAN & THE CAUCASUS. Iran and Caucasus research papers from the Caucasian Centre of Iranian Studies, vol. II (Yerevan, Garnik Asatrian ed.), 1998, pp. 71-74.

1996.a

● "Su Khiḍr, patrono di contaminazioni" (On Khiḍr, patron of contamination). In: Ex libris Franco Coslovi, (Eurasiatica n. 40. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Studi Eurasiatici dell’Università degli Studi Ca' Foscari di Venezia), Venezia (Poligrafo), 1996, pp. 213-228.

1996.b

● "San Sergio a Perugia". Annali di Ca' Foscari, 35-3 (s.o. 27), 1996, pp. 433-438.

1995.a

● "Integrazioni iranistiche a un passo di Corbin" (Iraninicist integrations at a text by Corbin”. In: Quaderni, III (Roma - Edizioni dell'Istituto Culturale della Repubblica Islamica dell'Iran in Italia), 1995, pp. 7-13.

1995.b

● "Sul sade di Biruni e di ‘Onṣori". Annali di Ca' Foscari, 34-3 (s.o. 26), 1995: pp. 309-317.

1994.a

● Anonimo Turco, Ashìk Kerìb, l'amante smemorato (Ashik Kerib, the forgetful lover), intr. e trad. a c. di S. Cristoforetti, Milano (Tranchida Editori Inchiostro), 1994 (75 pp.).

1994.b

● "La Georgia antiochena e il 'lungo viaggio' di Ashïk Kerib"( Antiochene Georgia and the 'long journey' of Ashïk Kerib). Annali di Ca' Foscari, 33-3 (s. o. 25), 1994, pp. 139-150.