PAPESSO, Valentino. Verona 29.8.1888 — 1944. Italian Indologist. Professor in Bologna. Studies at Bologna, graduated 1911. School teacher, also Docent of Sanskrit at Bologna University, then Professor incaricato there. He emphasized the IE heritage reflecting in the Veda.

Publications: Edited: “Il ‘Pinākinīmāhātmyam’ attribuito al Brahmāṇḍapurāṇam”, GSAI 27, 1915, 81-128.

– Translated: Inni del Rigveda. 1-2. 158+180 p. Testi e Docum. per la Storia delle Religioni 2:1-2. Bologna 1929-31; Inni dell’ Atharvaveda. 15+205 p. Ibid. 5. Bologna 1933; Chāndogya-Upaniṣad. 10+235 p. Ibid. 7. Bol. 1937 (with text).

– “La cornice della Samyaktvakaumudī e due delle novelle in essa incastrate secondo una recensione inedita”, RSO 13, 1931-32, 1-12; short articles and reviews.

Sources: Franci 1991, 211f.; works in Gabrieli, Bibliogr. 1935 and Portu 1940.