Asie du Sud

L'Italie

Adjunct Professor in Indology and History of Religions

University of Potenza

ghezziem@tin.it

University of Potenza,
Conservatorio di Musica of Vicenza,
Piazza Buzzati, 5
43122 Parma, ITALY

Phone: 39/521-773854
Fax: 39/521-773854

India

* Degree in Sanskrit Language and Literature, magna cum laude, at the
University of Milan, Italy.

* Ph.D. at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy.

* Fellowship (2004) in the Oxford Centre for Hindu and Vaisnava Studies in
Oxford (UK)

* Fields of research: Indian aesthetics and rhetorics; Sanskrit poetry and
dramaturgy; devotional religion; comic literature of India; women's position in India.

* Current projects: analysis of the origins of kavya; translation from
Pali into Italian of the Thera-Therigatha; translation of Rupa Gosvamins
Padyavali.

* Publications: translations from Sanskrit into Italian (Samayamatrika;
Sakuntalopakyana; Amarushataka; Sattasai; Mayurashtaka; Anangaranga;
Rasamajari; Bhaminivilasa; Ratimanjari; Rasikaranjana;
Shriramapratapacharitamahakavya; Hamsaduta; Rathangaduta;
Shringararasashtaka; and an anthology of Sanskrit poetry); several essays
on kavya, bhakti, alamkarashastra, and stridharma.

aesthetics ; rhetorics ; Sanskrit ; poetry ; dramaturgy ; devotional religion ; comic literature ...