Francesco Calzolaio
I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong. My research looks at the shared history of the Persianate world and East Asia, especially China.
I studied for my BA and MA degrees in Middle Eastern Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and earned a joint PhD in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Université de Limoges and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, respectively. Before coming to Hong Kong, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at Ca' Foscari's "Marco Polo" Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections. I am also an associated researcher at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies, Istanbul.
Currently following three lines of research:
1 - The Sinological writings of Rashid al-Din, a pivotal figure in the hitherto largely unexplored history of 'Islamicate sinology' (I've a number of articles out on this project, plus a book that is currently under contract with Edinburgh University Press).
2 - A history of the encounter between Persianate literati and the phenomenon of China between ca. 950 and 1500 (book in preparation).
3 - The two-way exchange of knowledge about China between Europe and the Islamicate world in ca. 1500-1750.
For a comprehensive list of my publications, see my HKU webpage: https://www.sof.arts.hku.hk/francesco-calzolaio
I studied for my BA and MA degrees in Middle Eastern Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and earned a joint PhD in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Université de Limoges and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, respectively. Before coming to Hong Kong, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at Ca' Foscari's "Marco Polo" Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections. I am also an associated researcher at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies, Istanbul.
Currently following three lines of research:
1 - The Sinological writings of Rashid al-Din, a pivotal figure in the hitherto largely unexplored history of 'Islamicate sinology' (I've a number of articles out on this project, plus a book that is currently under contract with Edinburgh University Press).
2 - A history of the encounter between Persianate literati and the phenomenon of China between ca. 950 and 1500 (book in preparation).
3 - The two-way exchange of knowledge about China between Europe and the Islamicate world in ca. 1500-1750.
For a comprehensive list of my publications, see my HKU webpage: https://www.sof.arts.hku.hk/francesco-calzolaio
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Confucius. As a continuation to the first part of the paper, devoted to Rashīd al-Dīn’s account on the Buddha, here we focus on the excerpts on Laozi and Confucius, which probably constitute the first discussions of these two figures in the Islamicate world. Reading these excerpts against the background of Chinese sources, striking similarities can be
found between Rashīd al-Dīn’s accounts and the narratives of Buddhist ‘universal histories’ of the early Yuan period, belonging to the historiographical production of the Chan school.
Books by Francesco Calzolaio
tenutosi all’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia,
si propone un’esplorazione delle opportunità
euristiche legate al concetto di confine.
Raccogliendo tredici contributi afferenti ad ambiti
disciplinari diversi e organizzati in quattro sezioni
tematiche, nel suo complesso esso ambisce
a mostrare l’arbitrarietà sottesa al tracciamento
di ogni confine e a far luce sulla meccanica
che orienta i processi di partizione.
Conference Presentations by Francesco Calzolaio
Rashid al-Din: New Perspectives, Unanswered Questions
Friday, April 8th 2022, 15:30 IST
With:
Francesco Calzolaio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Jonathan Brack (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Stefan Kamola (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Golriz Farshi (University of Michigan)
Moderator: Michal Biran, (The Hebrew University)
For details and link:
[email protected]; [email protected]
Confucius. As a continuation to the first part of the paper, devoted to Rashīd al-Dīn’s account on the Buddha, here we focus on the excerpts on Laozi and Confucius, which probably constitute the first discussions of these two figures in the Islamicate world. Reading these excerpts against the background of Chinese sources, striking similarities can be
found between Rashīd al-Dīn’s accounts and the narratives of Buddhist ‘universal histories’ of the early Yuan period, belonging to the historiographical production of the Chan school.
tenutosi all’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia,
si propone un’esplorazione delle opportunità
euristiche legate al concetto di confine.
Raccogliendo tredici contributi afferenti ad ambiti
disciplinari diversi e organizzati in quattro sezioni
tematiche, nel suo complesso esso ambisce
a mostrare l’arbitrarietà sottesa al tracciamento
di ogni confine e a far luce sulla meccanica
che orienta i processi di partizione.
Rashid al-Din: New Perspectives, Unanswered Questions
Friday, April 8th 2022, 15:30 IST
With:
Francesco Calzolaio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Jonathan Brack (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Stefan Kamola (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Golriz Farshi (University of Michigan)
Moderator: Michal Biran, (The Hebrew University)
For details and link:
[email protected]; [email protected]