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Other Orientalisms analyses various forms of knowledge about India through the circulation of people, ideas, knowledge, images and objects between Florence and Bombay. In the second half of the nineteenth century Florence became an important centre for studies on India, manifested in the organisation of exhibitions, museums, journals and international conferences. Inspired by the relationship between two Indianists – the Italian Angelo De Gubernatis, a teacher of Sanskrit in Florence and the Goan José Gerson da Cunha, a physician and historian in Bombay – this book discloses an India that emerged from different places, peopled by a multiplicity of voices. The institutional, intellectual and museum experience of Florentine orientalism, albeit peripheral, further enhances the debate on knowledge and colonial power that has engaged social and human sciences in recent decades.

The PhD course in Mediaeval History of the University of Florence is one of the oldest in the Italian university circuit. Founded in 1983 by Girolamo Arnaldi, Elio Conti and Raoul Manselli, all the cycles of the courses were launched, achieving results of the greatest significance in the sphere of research. Over the years, about sixty young students and a couple of dozen teachers have given shape to a human and intellectual experience based on exchange and the acceptance of different points of view. Traced out in this book is a brief history of the first twenty years, rendering account of the activities fostered and the research carried out, and providing the scientific and bibliographic profiles of each member. - Il Dottorato di ricerca in Storia medievale dell'Università di Firenze è uno dei più antichi dell'università italiana. Fondato nel 1983 da Girolamo Arnaldi, Elio Conti e Raoul Manselli, ha attivato tutti i cicli dei corsi, conseguendo risultati di rilievo nell'attività di ricerca. Nel corso del tempo una sessantina di giovani studiosi e una ventina di docenti hanno dato corpo a un'esperienza umana e intellettuale basata sul confronto e sull'accettazione di punti di vista diversi. Ne è qui ripercorsa, in forma sintetica, la storia dei primi vent'anni, dando conto delle attività promosse e delle ricerche condotte, e raccogliendo i profili scientifici e la bibliografia di ciascun membro.