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Giovanni Ciotti

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of History and Cultures

Academic discipline: ASIA-01/C Indology and Tibetology

Publications

Ruolo editoriale nella rivista «manuscript cultures»

Poliakova, Anastasia; Ciotti, Giovanni; Blinnikov, Mikhail, Historical use of grasses in South Indian palm-leaf manuscript production reconstructed from phytolith analysis, «REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY», 2026, 352, pp. 1 - 24 [Scientific article]

Poliakova, Anastasia; Ciotti, Giovanni; Perumal, Palanichamy; Balachandran, Natesan, Plants used for palm-leaf manuscript production and conservation in South and Southeast Asia: a review of the literature, «BOTANY LETTERS», 2026, Latest Articles, pp. 1 - 26 [Scientific article]Open Access

Ciotti, Giovanni; Cuneo, Daniele, YOLO or yāvajjīvaṃ sukhaṃ jīvet. The Materialist Doctrine in Vedāntadeśika’s Paramatabhaṅgam, in: Vidvanmānasaprasādinī: Essays in Honour of S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma, Pondicherry, Institut français de Pondichéry / École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2026, pp. 581 - 606 [Chapter or essay]

Voges, Lucas F.; Horn, Nils; Ciotti, Giovanni; Seifert, Stephan, Differentiation of Species and Provenance of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics, «CHEMOSENSORS», 2025, 13, pp. 1 - 12 [Scientific article]Open Access

Ciotti, Giovanni, Faithful Copying in Tamil Manuscripts: A Philological Remark, in: Praśasti. Studies in Indology Presented to Nalini Balbir by Colleagues, Students and Friends, Halle an der Saale, Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2025, pp. 87 - 99 (STUDIA INDOLOGICA UNIVERSITATIS HALENSIS) [Chapter or essay]Open Access

Buriola, Giulia; Ciotti, Giovanni; Franceschini, Marco, Marking up the Edges. XML TEI Encoding Strategies for Indic Colophon Collections, in: South-Indian manuscripts in Hamburg and Paris: Paratexts and Provenance. TST project (ANR & DFG, 2019-2023), Hamburg, Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, University of Hamburg, 2025, pp. 129 - 161 (Indian and Tibetan Studies) [Chapter or essay]Open Access

Ciotti, Giovanni, The Manipravalam Version of the Bhagavadgītā by K. Śrīnivāsan in Ms GOML R3507 (Studies in Late Tamil Manipravalam Literature 4), «JOURNAL OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY», 2025, 2025, pp. 1 - 21 [Scientific article]Open Access

Ciotti, Giovanni; Franceschini, Marco, Experimenting with Digital Palaeography: The First Application of the Handwriting Software Tool (HAT 3.5) to Indian Scripts, in: The Universe of Knowledge. Celebrating Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972), Udine, Forum, 2024, pp. 159 - 192 (TRACCE. ITINERARI DI RICERCA/AREA UMANISTICA E DELLA FORMAZIONE) [Chapter or essay]Open Access

Poliakova, Anastasia; Ciotti, Giovanni; Helman-Wazny, Agnieszka; Fromm, Jörg, Phytolith assemblages from palm leaves and palm-leaf manuscripts: what is the difference and what it could mean?, «FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE», 2024, 15, pp. 1 - 29 [Scientific article]Open Access

Ciotti G., Strategies for binding pothi manuscripts, in: Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 155 - 189 [Chapter or essay]Open Access

Ciotti G., Scribe, owner, or both? Some ambiguities in the interpretations of personal names in colophons from Tamil Nadu, in: The Syntax of Colophons: A Comparative Study across Pothi Manuscripts, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 151 - 169 [Chapter or essay]Open Access

Balbir N.; Ciotti G., The Syntax of Colophons: A Comparative Study across Pothi Manuscripts, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 406 . [Editorship]Open Access

Giovanni Ciotti; R. Sathyanarayanan, Between Manipravalam and Tamil: The Case of the Viṣṇupurāṇavacaṉam and Its Recensions (Studies in Late Tamil Manipravalam Literature 3), in: Linguistic and Textual Aspects of Multilingualism in South India and Sri Lanka, Pondicherry, EFEO/IFP, 2021, pp. 665 - 751 [Chapter or essay]

Ciotti, Giovanni; Cuneo, Daniele, Copioso sangue e rossa pasta di sandalo, Milano, Edizioni Ariele sas, 2021, pp. 265 . [Research monograph]

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