Publications and communications of Alessandro Rizzo

Rizzo, A. (2024). The Representation of the Space of the Parties by Mamluk Chancery Secretaries in Documents and Works Concerning Relations between the Sultanate and Christian Powers. Der Islam, (1), 223-239. doi:10.1515/islam-2024-0008

Rizzo, A. (2024). Florence et le sultanat mamelouk: les documents de la diplomatie (début XVe - début XVIe siècle). BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004679665

Rizzo, A. (06 October 2023). Beyond the Dār al-Islām/Dār al-ḥarb Paradigm. Eurasian Studies, 20 (2), 175-194. doi:10.1163/24685623-20220131

Rizzo, A. (February 2022). Reassessing the Significance of Archival Material in Mamluk Diplomatic Studies. A Survey of Florentine-Mamluk Relations through the Lens of Chancery Sources (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries). Mamlūk Studies Review, 24, 239-258. doi:10.6082/m3kr-fj76

Rizzo, A. (2022). The Significance of the Written Word in European–Mamlūk Diplomatic Missions. Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 34 (1), 1-18. doi:10.1080/09503110.2020.1842090

Rizzo, A. (December 2021). Istruire sulle parole e sui gesti della diplomazia: le Istruzioni agli ambasciatori europei inviati al sultanato mamelucco. Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 51 (2), 823-850. doi:10.3989/aem.2021.51.2.12

Rizzo, A. (2021). Travelling and Trading Through Mamluk Territory: Chancery Documents Guaranteeing Mobility to Christian Merchants. In A. Al Ghouz & B. Walker (Eds.), History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250– 1517). Mamluk Studies III (pp. 487-510). Göttingen, Germany: V&R Unipress.

Rizzo, A. (2021). Le Lys et le Lion. Les documents de la diplomatie entre Florence et le sultanat mamelouk (début XVe-début XVIe siècle). Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.

Rizzo, A. (2021). L’ambassade florentine de 1422 et l’établissement des relations commerciales avec les Mamelouks: Les premiers documents. In É. Malamut & M. Ouerfelli (Eds.), De la guerre à la paix en Méditerranée médiévale (pp. 225-237). Marseille, France: PUP.

Rizzo, A. (2021). Firenze e il sultanato mamelucco: le fonti diplomatiche. Il Monitore della Toscana, 34, 5-10.

Rizzo, A. (2021). Diplomatie sur le terrain: la première mission diplomatique florentine en territoire mamelouk. In F. Bauden (Ed.), Culture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques entre l’Occident latin, Byzance et l’Orient islamique (XIe-XVIe siècle) (pp. 81-100). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. doi:10.1163/9789004465381_005

Rizzo, A. (13 January 2020). Réinterprétation du paradigme dār al Islām/dār al-ḥarb à la lumière des documents diplomatiques concernant les relations entre le sultanat mamelouk et les pouvoirs chrétiens [Paper presentation]. Séminaire sur la Méditerranée médiévale, Paris, France.

Rizzo, A. (2020). Reassessing the Significance of Archival Material in Mamluk Diplomatic Studies. A Survey of Florentine-Mamluk Relations through the Lens of Chancery Sources (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries). Mamlūk Studies Review, 18.

Rizzo, A. (11 July 2019). Strategies of dialogue between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Crown of Aragon [Paper presentation]. Sixth biennial conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Barcelona, Spain.

Rizzo, A. (05 July 2019). The Mamluk Scrolls Kept in the Florentine Archives [Paper presentation]. International Workshop ‘Text and Layout Structure of Arabic Documents (7th- 16th Centuries), Granada, Spain.

Rizzo, A. (17 June 2019). Beyond the dār al Islām / dār al-ḥarb paradigm: the multiform dialogue between Mamluks and Christian Powers through a diplomatic approach [Paper presentation]. School of Mamluk Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Rizzo, A. (2019). Three Mamluk Letters concerning the Florentine Trade in Egypt and Syria. A new interpretation. In F. Bauden & M. Dekkiche (Eds.), Mamlūk Cairo: A Crossroad for Embassies (pp. 782-797). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.

Rizzo, A. (2018). Le Lys et le Lion. Diplomatie et échanges entre Florence et le sultanat mamelouk (début XVe-début XVIe siècle) [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/213993

Rizzo, A. (12 September 2018). Barsbāy’s Letter to the Republic of Florence (1422) [Paper presentation]. Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, 29th Congress, Münster, Germany.

Rizzo, A. (2018). Mamluk diplomatic instruments guaranteeing mobility to European emissaries and merchants: final results [Paper presentation]. Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg - Fellows' Seminar, Bonn, Germany.

Rizzo, A. (2017). Les documents de la chancellerie mamelouke conservés à Florence [Paper presentation]. Stage d’initiation aux manuscrits en caractères arabes, Paris, France.

Rizzo, A. (09 September 2017). Different levels of ambassador’s backgrounds: two Florentine embassies to the Mamluk Cairo [Paper presentation]. VIII AISU Congress, Naples, Italy.

Rizzo, A. (29 June 2017). Florence et le Sultanat Mamelouk : relations diplomatiques et commerciales [Paper presentation]. XXème Rencontres Diwan, Aix-en-Provence et Marseille, France.

Rizzo, A. (27 October 2016). Testimonianze pubbliche e private sui contatti diplomatici tra Firenze e il Cairo nel secolo XV [Paper presentation]. Seminari d’Estudis Doctorals IMF-CSIC.

Rizzo, A. (28 April 2015). Diplomatie sur le terrain: la première mission diplomatique florentine en territoire mamelouk [Paper presentation]. Culture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques entre l’Occident latin, Byzance et l’Orient islamique (XIe-XVIe siècle), Liège, Belgium.

Rizzo, A. (2015). Les relations entre Florence et le sultanat mamelouk [Paper presentation]. The diplomatic exchanges between Islamic Mediterranean powers and Christian European cities in the Middle Ages.

Rizzo, A. (2015). Les espaces du commerce et de la diplomatie réservés aux Florentins dans l’Empire mamelouk [Paper presentation]. Séminaire des doctorants de Transitions.