Under Two Lions. On the Knowledge of Persia in the Republic of Venice (ca. 1450–1797) (Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009).
La Vita e i Tempi di Rostam Khan, an edition and translation of the manuscript British Library Add Ms 7,655 (Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009).
Articles
"Taking Stock of Ludovico da Bologna", in The Eurasian History. Contributions to the history, culture and civilization (Constanta: Ovidius University Press, forthcoming).
"Fighting with the Qezelbash: Some remarks on Safavid warfare", in the proceedings of the conference "Availing of nomadic military power – stratagems and pitfalls: Iran and adjacent areas in the Islamic period" (Halle an der Saale, 21-23 February 2008) (forthcoming).
"The mask of Shah Abbas I", in Mediaeval and Modern Iranian Studies, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, September 18-22. 07, ed. Maria Szuppe, Anna Krasnowolska and Claus V. Pedersen, Paris 2011, pp. 167-178.
"Safavid Persia and its Diplomatic Relations with Venice", in the proceedings of the conference "Iran and the World in the Safavid Age" (London, 4-7 September 2002) (forthcoming).
"Diplomatic Relations between the Safavids and Siam in the 17th Century", in Aspects of the Maritime Silk Road: from the Persian Gulf to the East China Sea, ed. Ralph Kauz (Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2010), pp. 71-85
"Safavid Envoys in Venice", in Diplomatisches Zeremoniell in Europa und im Mittleren Osten in der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Ralph Kauz, Giorgio Rota, Jan Paul Niederkorn (Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009), pp. 213–245.
“Das safawidische Persien und Europa, 1500-1722”, in Kunst als Botschaft. Asien und Europa, 1500-1700, ed. Peter Noever (Vienna-Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag and MAK Vienna, 2009), pp. 206-207.
"The Horses of the Shah: Some Remarks on the Organisation of the Safavid Royal Stables, Mainly Based on Three Persian Handbooks of Administrative Practice", in Pferde in Asien: Geschichte, Handel und Kultur / Horses in Asia: History, Trade and Culture, ed. Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz, Roderich Ptak, Angela Schottenhammer, Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009, pp. 33-42.
"The Death of Tahmaspqoli Xan Qajar According to a Contemporary Ragusan Source (How to Become a Renegade, 2)", in Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen: Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner, ed. Markus Ritter, Ralph Kauz and Birgitt Hoffmann, Wiesbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008, pp. 54-63.
"Una nota su Moldavia, Valacchia e la strategia anti-ottomana della Repubblica di Venezia nel 1638-1639", in L’Europa Centro-Orientale e la Penisola italiana: quattro secoli di rapporti e influssi intercorsi tra Stati e civiltà (1300-1700), ed. Cristian Luca e Gianluca Masi, Brăila-Venezia, Museo di Brăila-Istros Editrice, 2007, pp. 207-225.
“False Moriscos and true renegades: Spaniards and other subjects
of the King of Spain in the records of the Santo Uffizio of Venice”,
in the proceedings of the conference "La Spagna e l’Oriente islamico (Impero Ottomano, Persia,
Asia Centrale) tra il XV e il XVI secolo" (Naples, 30 September –
2 October 2004), ed. Encanación Sanchez García, Pablo Martín Asuero and Michele Bernardini. Cuadernos
del Bosforo VI, 2007, pp. 175-206.
"Safavids and Kalmyks in the 17th Century: A Preliminary Assessment", in Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europaea, ed. Antonio Panaino and Riccardo Zipoli, Milan, Mimesis, 2006, vol. II, pp. 189-204;
"A New Date for the Death of Giorgi Saak’adze", Eurasian Studies, 4, 1, 2005, pp. 19-27;
"Caccia e regalità nella Persia safavide e in Europa occidentale: alcune osservazioni preliminari", in Scritti in onore di Giovanni M. D’Erme, ed. Michele Bernardini e Natalia Tornesello, Naples, Università degli Studi "L’Orientale”, 2005, vol. II, pp. 942-974;
“Il ‘confine’ transcaucasico visto da sud: il punto
di vista persiano”, in La Russia verso Oriente. Il crocevia del
Caucaso, ed. Sergio Bertolissi and Luigi Magarotto (Naples: M. D’Auria
Editore, 2004), pp. 55-62.
"Diplomatic Relations between Safavid Persia and the Republic of Venice:
an Overview", in The Turks, vol. II, ed. Hasan Celal Güzel, C. Cem Oguz
and Osman Karatay (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Publications, 2002), pp. 580-587.
"Three Less Known Persian Sources of the 17th Century", Orientalist,
1, 2001, pp. 183-195.
"Caucasians in Safavid Service in the 17th Century", in Caucasia Between
the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1555-1914, ed. Raoul Motika and Michael
Ursinus, Wiesbaden, Reichert Verlag, 2000, pp. 107-120.
"The Man who would not be King: Abu'l-Fath Sultan Muhammad Mirza Safavi
in India", Iranian Studies, 32, 4, 1999, pp. 513-535.
"Three Little-Known Persian Sources of the Seventeenth Century", Iranian
Studies, 31, 2, 1998, pp. 159-176.
"Some Descriptions of Earthquakes in XVII-XIX Century Persian Historical
Sources", Annali di Ca' Foscari, 36, 3, 1997, pp. 459-469.
"Vasefi e i suoi tempi: uno sguardo alle Badaye'o'l-vaqaye'", in La
civiltà timuride come fenomeno internazionale (Oriente Moderno, Nuova
Serie, 15 [76], 2, 1996), ed. Michele Bernardini, vol. 1, pp. 139-164.
"Un Sofi tra i Nababbi: l'ultimo Safavide a Lucknow", in Ex libris
Franco Coslovi, ed. Daniela Bredi and Gianroberto Scarcia (Venice: Poligrafo,
1996), pp. 337-380.
"Osservazioni in margine al 'Libro di Dede Korkut'", Studi Orientali
e Linguistici, 5, 1994-95, pp. 131-147.
"Le Favayedo's-safaviye e la storia della Georgia", Annali di Ca'
Foscari, 33, 3, 1994, pp. 427-444.
"Cristianesimo e Islam: coesistenza in terra romena", in Scarcia,
Bellingeri, Kappler, Rota, Nuzzo, Impero ottomano ed Europa (Palermo:
Centro culturale Al Farabi, 1993), pp. 59-73.
"Ancora sul palazzo di Ishak Pasha a Dogubayazit", Annali di Ca' Foscari,
32, 3, 1993, pp. 335-342.
"Musulmani alla scoperta dell'America", Islà m. Storia e civiltà , 11,
4, 1992, pp. 235-247.
"Georgia", in Regioni e Mete in Europa, vol. 2 (Milan: Touring Club
Italiano, 1991), pp. 33-39 and 43.
"Nezami e Shirin: considerazioni sulla nascita di una leggenda", in Atti del Quinto Simposio Internazionale di Arte Armena, ed. Boghos Levon
Zekiyan (Venice: S. Lazzaro, 1991), pp. 765-783.
"Le storie di Samarcanda", In Forma di Parole, Nuova serie, 2, 1,
1991, pp. 172-230 (with M. Pistoso).
"L'importanza delle scritte murali nell'Iran rivoluzionario", in Majmu'e-ye
Bahariye (Rome: Istituto Culturale della R. I. d'Iran in Italia, 1989),
pp. 155-170.
"Sulle origini 'iraniche' della rocca di Axalcixe", in Georgica II.
Materiali sulla Georgia occidentale, ed. L. Magarotto and G. Scarcia
(Bologna: Il Cavaliere Azzurro, 1988), pp. 135-140.
"L'Iran e il 'Reggente'", Annali di Ca' Foscari, 26, 3, 1987, pp.
271-277.
"Un santuario islamo-cristiano nei pressi di Varna", Islà m. Storia
e civiltà , 6, 3, 1987, pp. 190-199.
Editorial Work
Diplomatisches Zeremoniell in Europa und im Mittleren Osten in der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Ralph Kauz, Giorgio Rota, Jan Paul Niederkorn (Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009).
Book Reviews
“Journal of Persianate Studies”, 1, 2, 2008, in Eurasian Studies, 7 (2009): pp. 161-165;
“Journal of Persianate Studies”, 2, 1 (2009), in Eurasian Studies, 7 (2009): pp. 165-167;
Sussan Babaie, Katherine Babayan, Ina Baghdiantz e Massumeh Farhad, Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran (Londra, I. B. Tauris, 2004, pp. XII-218), The Middle East Journal, 59, 4, 2005, pp. 696-697;
Mirella Galletti, I Curdi nella storia (Chieti, Vecchio Faggio, 1990, pp. 351), Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 53, 2, 1993, pp. 235-237;
J. S. Guest, The Yezidis. A Study in Survival (Londra - New York, KPI, 1987, pp. XVIII-299), Annali di Ca' Foscari, 27, 3, 1988, pp. 387-391;
numerous contributions to Abstracta Iranica (since 2006).
Conference Papers
“Tra quattro paradisi. Esperienze, ideologie e riti relativi alla morte tra Oriente e Occidente” Venice, 10-11 December 2011 (title of the communication: From the Steppes of Central Asia: some remarks on funeral practices in Persia from the Safavids to the Qajars).
“Kommunikation im Krieg im späten Mittelalter”, Prague, 1-3 December 2011 (title of the communication: The Aq Qoyunlu-Venetian joint military campaign of 1473 in Anatolia and its background).
6th Biennnial Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies, Innsbruck, 21-23 September 2011 (title of the communication: Moderate Expectations and not-so-bitter Disappointment: on the Role of Austria-Hungary in Neutral Persia during the Great War)
7th European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 7), Cracow, 7-10 September 2011 (title of the communication: The Magnificent Seven: a Recurring Presence in Persian History from Darius I to Esma’il I).
4th Annual Program on Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations (PORDIR) Colloquium, “Religion and Self Determination”, Vienna, June 16 – 18, 2011.
"Some Remarks on Wine Consumption as a Political Factor under the Safavids", Conference "Viticulture and Wine Culture in and around Iran", Vienna, 16-17 September 2010
"Cannibals and Shahs", Workshop "Spatial Dimensions of Power: Coexistence, Cooperation and Conflict in Eastern Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Northwestern Iran, 11th-16th centuries", Bamberg, 16-18 April 2010.
"The life and structure of the Safavid court in the 17th century", Workshop "Höfe und soziale Gruppen im Umfeld des Hofes", Münster, 8-10 October 2008.
"Fighting with the Qezelbash: Some remarks on Safavid warfare", international conference "Availing of nomadic military power-stratagems and pitfalls: Iran and adjacent areas in the Islamic period", Halle an der Saale, 21-23 February 2008;
"The mask of Shah Abbas I", 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Vienna, 18-22 Settembre 2007;
"Georgia at the crossroads", 5th Annual Central Asia Conference, Missoula, 19-21 April 2007;
"Some remarks on horses and horsemen in the Safavid period", international conference "The International Horse Economy in Iran, India and China", Vienna, 19-20 October 2006;
"Safavid 'Counternomadic' Warfare", Symposium "Nomads vs. Standing Armies in the Iranian World, 1000-1800", Vienna, 5-6 December 2005;
"Safavid envoys in Venice", Symposium "Diplomatische Praxis und Zeremoniell in Europa und dem Mittleren Osten in der Frühen Neuzeit", Vienna, 28-29 November 2005;
"Names and cultural patronage as identity markers among the Safavid gholams", international conference "Iranian identity in the course of history", Rome, 21-24 September 2005;
"The second beginning: Safavid-European diplomatic relations around Lepanto”, First Italo-Austrian Symposium of Iranology, Cagli, 17-19 September 2005;
"False Moriscos and true renegades: Spaniards and other subjects of the King of Spain in the records of the Santo Uffizio of Venice", international conference "La Spagna e l’Oriente islamico (Impero Ottomano, Persia, Asia Centrale) tra il XV e il XVI secolo", Napoli, 30 September – 2 October 2004;
"Religious conversion and professional rivalry in Venice: two cases from the 17th century", 29th Deutscher Orientalistentag, Halle an der Saale, 20-24 September 2004;
"The knowledge of Persia in Venice, ca. 1450-1797", international conference on the study of Persian culture in the West. Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Century, St. Petersburg, 24-28 June 2004;
"Diplomatic relations between the Safavids and Siam in the 17th century", Workshop "The Maritime Silk Road", Vienna, 20-21 February 2004;
"Safavid-Kalmyk relations in the 17th century", 5th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Ravenna, 6-11 October 2003;
"The Diplomatic Missions of Hakob Margarian, Shah 'Abbas I's envoy to Europe", The 4th International Round-Table on Safavid Studies, Bamberg, 3-6 July 2003;
"Safavids and Kalmyks in the 17th century: a preliminary assessment", 8th European Conference on Central Asian Studies, Bordeaux, 23-27 September 2002;
"Safavid Persia and its Diplomatic Relations with Venice", international conference "Iran and the World in the Safavid Age", London, 4-7 September 2002;
"A new date for the death of Giorgi Saak'adze", international conference for the 90th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Valerian Gabashvili, Tbilisi, 1-3 November 2001;
"A remnant of shamanistic beliefs in Safavid Iran: cannibalism", 7th European Conference on Central Asian Studies, Vienna, 25-30 September 2000;
"The Last of the Safavids: Abu'l-Fath Soltan Mohammad Mirza in India", 2nd Biennial Conference on Iranian Sudies, Bethesda, 22-24 May 1998;
"The Shah's Janissaries: Safavid gholams, 1587-1722", 31st Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, San Francisco, 22-24 November 1997;
"Caucasians in the Service of the Safavid State in the 17th Century", international conference Kaukasien zwischen Osmanischem Reich und Iran, 1555-1914, Heidelberg, 24-25 October 1997;
"Three Less Known Persian Sources of the 17th Century", 30th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Providence, 21-24 November 1996;
"Nezami e Shirin: considerazioni sulla nascita di una leggenda", 5th International Symposium on Armenian Art, Venice, 30 May - 3 June 1988;
Conference Organisation
Symposium "Diplomatische Praxis und Zeremoniell in Europa und dem Mittleren Osten in der Frühen Neuzeit", Vienna, 28-29 November 2005 (in cooperation with Ralph Kauz and Jan Paul Niederkorn).
Symposium "Nomads vs. standing armies in the Iranian world, 1000-1800", Vienna, 5-6 December 2005.
