Part of a special issue on Comparative Literature and Translation edited by my colleagues @hpartzsch.bsky.social and @drmirnasolic.bsky.social.
My essay 'Italo Pizzi’s Shahnameh: Oriental Studies, Comparison, and Translation at the Origins of the Italian Nation' is now live on @modlangopen.bsky.social !
It expands the origin story of Comparative/World Literature via Oriental Studies by looking at a forgotten Italian.
doi.org/10.3828/mlo....
