Quando gli scienziati inventarono una lingua: il pahlavīnella filologia dell’Ottocento
This article aims to offer a historical overview of the discovery of Book Pahlavī or Zoroastrian Middle Persian between the last decades of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century; it is a topic which has never been studied since Carl Salemann's brief introduction to the chapter devoted to Middle Persian in Geiger and Kuhn's "Grundriss der iranischen Philologie".