His research interests are centered on the stylistic and socio-linguistic issues related to the spread and the use of Persian literary culture in Southern and Central Asia; the translation and re-writing of the texts of the Sanskritic tradition into Persian; and the cosmopolitan aspects of the iconography of painting in the Persian and Persianate poetic environment. His publications include "A paper temple: Mani's Arzhang in and around Persian Lexicography" (2010); the first complete Italian translation of the Divan of Hafez of Shiraz, Canzoniere (2005); and a monograph on the reception of Persian poetics in Nawabi Lucknow, La teoria della qafiya nel Mizan al-Afkar di Muhammad Sa'd Allah Muradabadi (2003).