Maria Nallino (1908-1974) and the Birth of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ca’ Foscari
abstract
This essay, based on bibliographic and archival material, focuses on the academic figure Maria Nallino, a scholar whose voluminous body of work ranges from classicism to modernity with equal fluency and expertise. Daughter of the famous Orientalist Carlo Alfonso Nallino (1872-1938), whose work she gathered and actively promoted, her arrival at Ca’ Foscari (1962) inaugurated Arabic and Islamic Studies in Venice.
Keywords: Islamic Studies • Nallino • Ca’ Foscari • Arabian Studies • Arabic language