CONIO, Caterina. Santo Stefano al Mare (Liguria) 1929 — Milano 1996. Italian Indologist. Daughter of a bank director, grew up in Florence. Graduated 1964 from Catholic University of Milano. Further studies at Banaras Hindu University (T. R. V. Murthy) and Münster (Hacker). From 1974 until death taught Indian religion and philosophy at University of Pisa. She was interested in Hindu-Catholic interreligious discourse and especially in Henri Le Saux.
Publications: Induismo e profetismo. 290 p. 1966.
– The philosophy of Māṇḍūkya Kārikā. 244 p. Varanasi 1971 (diss.).
– Il Pensiero indiano: introduzione bibliografico-metodologica. 169 p. Milano 1972.
– Mito e filosofia nella tradizione indiana. Le cosmogonie nei Mahapurana. 194 p. Studi di filosofia 10. Milano 1974.
– Induismo. 96 p. Milano 1984, German and Spanish translations.
– Abhisiktananda: sulle frontiere dell’incontro cristiano-indu. 316 p. Assisi 1994.
– Articles on Indian philosophy.
Sources: Italian Wikipedia.
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