Ricerc@Sapienza

Mario Casari’s expertise in Arabic and Persian underpins research in the circulation of texts and cultural contacts in the Mediterranean and Middle East from late antiquity to the early modern age, with a wide variety of approaches, presented in several publications: medieval narrative literature, with special attention to the Asian transmission of the Alexander Romance; history of children’s literature in Iran and the Arab world; Arabic and Persian studies in Europe; Arabic and Persian gastronomic literature.