Gli studi mongoli in Italia. Note preliminari per una bio-bibliografia
This paper aims to shed light on the Mongolian studies in Italy from 1861 to the present day. It is mainly focused on the nineteenth century and it analyses the two most important Italian institutions of time for the Oriental Studies, that is the “Regio Istituto di Studi Superiori Pratici e di Perfezionamento” of Florence and the the “Real Collegio Asiatico” of Naples. In these academic institutions there were a number of outstanding scholars interested in Mongolian language such as Carlo Puini, Emilio Teza and Guido Amedeo Vitale.