Paola Orsatti is currently professor at La Sapienza University in Rome.
In the course of a long and distinguished academic career combined with
an impressive record of dedicated teaching, she has made significant
contributions to the study of classical Persian poetry, its connections
with pre-Islamic traditions, the history of the Persian language, and
Islamic manuscripts. Along with a profile of the dedicatee and a
comprehensive bibliography of her publications up to 2019, the volume
contains eighteen papers by her colleagues, friends, and former students
to celebrate her 65th birthday. The papers mirror her diverse research
interests. They deal with a variety of themes relating to Persian
literature from Middle Persian texts to twentieth-century
poetry-approached philologically, historically, and critically-as well
as to the history of Middle and New Persian and the dialects of Iran,
and include significant Persian literary texts translated and edited for
the first time in this volume.