Simone CRISTOFORETTI

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).

Congresses and conferences

2022

● October 20 - The Risāla dar taḥqīq-i nowrūz by Ismāʿīl Khātūnābādī - VI International Conference in Iranian Studies in Bologna (CoBIran). University of Bologna (Italy) - Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures e Cultures (LILEC) and Dept. of Cultural Heritages (DBC).

● May 28 - Talking with Sepideh Siyāvashi - Querini Stampalia Foundation (Venice - Italy) - Incroci di Civiltà. International Festival Festival of Literature in Venice (Italy).

2021

● November 6 - Talking with Gholam Najafi - Incroci di Civiltà. International Festival Festival of Literature in Venice (Italy). 

2019

● 11 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

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

2017

● 10 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).

● 7 May (17 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).

● 4 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").

● 2 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

● 8 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, Tehran (Iran). http://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/83834

2014

● 29 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

● 13 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".

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

● 1 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
● 21 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

● 17 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

● 4 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".

● 29 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

● 23 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

● 8 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)

● 14 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

● 3 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,

● 28 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).

● 7 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

● 10 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).

● 6 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).

● 27 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

● 18 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).

● 10 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).

● 19 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

● 31 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.

● 11 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.

Prizes and other activities

2021-

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

2021-

Member of the Advisory Board of Marco Polo Research Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections Series titled: Marco Polo. Studies in Global Europe-Asia Connections (ISSN: 2785-5899). Series Editors:Elisabetta Ragagnin, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italia; Sabrina Rastelli, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italia. https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/collane/marco-polo-research-centre/

2019

Applicant (code ARU3J3DJ) to SPIN2 2019 with the progetto LaWRIC (Landscape, Water Resources, and Ismaili Castles: Case Studies of Human Environmental Interaction).

2012 -

Editorial consultant for the Brazilian Publishing House Âyiné. www.ayine.com.br

2011-2012

member of the University Project  on a electronic edition of I viaggi di messer Marco Polo (G.B. Ramusio, Navigationi et viaggi, II, 1559) coordinated by Prof. Eugenio Burgio.

2011-

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

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).