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Raffaele Torella is professor of Sanskrit at University of Roman "Sapienza", where he has also taught for long Indian Philosophy and Religion, and Indology. His preferred field of research are Kashmir Shaivism, linguistic speculation, Buddhist epistemology and manuscriptology. Among his main publications, there is the first critical edition and anotated English od Utpaladeva's Isvarapratyabhijna-karika and vrtti, the fundamental theortical work of Pratybhijna Philosophy and of Hindu Tantrism as a whole (MLBD.Delhi 2002); the Italian translation of the Sivasutra with Kesemaraja's commentary (Milan 1999); Eros and emotions in India and Tibet (Einaudi, Turin 2007; in Italian).He has been the scientific responsible and co-author of the section "Science in India" in the multivolume work History of Science (Rome 2002; in Italian). Along with Bettina Baumer, he has recently origanised the first International Workshop on Utpaladeva (Indian Institute for Advanced Study, Shimla 2010).