Mario Sabattini (1944-2017), Emeritus Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University at Venice, focused mainly on Zhu Guangqian's aesthetic thought, and poetic in general. He has published extensively in Italian, English and Chinese. He has been a pioneer in the teaching of Thai language in Italy. From 1999 to 2003, Sabattini served as Cultural Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in the People’s Republic of China.

      Elisa Levi Sabattini, Ph.D. (2006), Ca’ Foscari University at Venice and INALCO at Paris, is Associate Professor of Chinese Philology at L’Orientale University of Naples and affiliated Research Fellow at the Frieberg Center for Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of Early China, with special attention to Western Han political rhetoric within the construction of the monarchic system, ethical standards, early economic thought.