With
the patronage of the Regional Authority of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the support
of the Provincial Authority of Udine and of the Municipal Authorities of Udine
and Moggio Udinese and of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone,
the Società Indologica "Luigi Pio Tessitori" on 9 and 10 September
1994 organized an international conference on the subject of Tessitori e
l'India in Udine and Moggio Udinese. The following scholars contributed
to the proceedings: Carlo Della Casa, University of Milan (Interessi indologici
in Italia all'epoca di Tessitori); Hazari Mull Banthia, Panchala Shoda Samstana
in Kanpur (Tribute to Dr. L. P. Tessitori for his Unique Contribution to
Indian Art, Culture and Archaeology); Enrico Fasana, University of Trieste
(Tessitori e il Rajasthan dei suoi tempi); Romano Lazzeroni, University
of Pisa (L'autonomia del poeta e lungua poetica indoeuropea); Nalini
Balbir, Universitè Sorbonne Nouvelle of Paris (Tessitori's Pioneering
Work on the Uvaesamâlâ, a Basic Book of Jain Teaching); Nagamma
Reddy, Osmania University of Hyderabad (Perspectives on Vowel Quality and
Quantity Distinction across Indian Languages); Giuliano Boccali, University
of Venice (Per un inedito tessitoriano: la versione del Puspabânavilâsa);
Ramakrishna Reddy, Telugu University of Hyderabad (Linguistic Diffusion in
Central India: Austric, Dravidian and Indo-Aryan Symbiosis); Bruno Marcolongo,
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (On the Trail of the Vedic Sarasvati:
from Tessitori to the Present Day); B.G. Sidharth, B.M. Birla Science Centre
in Hyderabad (Astronomical Symbolism and Ancient Indian Chronology: a Date
for Râmâyana). A number of cultural events took place at the
same time as the conference, which was inaugurated at Palazzo Belgrado and concluded
in the Salone del Parlamento of the Castle of Udine. These events included a
Concerto di musica indiana, performed by Sankha Chatterjee and Budhaditya
Mukherjee from Calcutta; an exhibition of photographs entitled Tessitori
and Rajasthan: 1914/1919; a screening of the documentary Tessitori in
Rajasthan. Diario 1914-1919, produced by the Centro Linguistico e Audiovisivi
of the University of Udine in collaboration with the Società Indologica.
The documentary had previously been broadcast by Radiotelevisione Italiana.
