Arianna D’Ottone Rambach is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Sapienza – University of Rome. A specialist of Arabic written culture and a numismatist, she published extensively on Arabic palaeography and codicology, Arabic numismatics, papyrology and Art history, as well as on the historiography of Arabic studies in Italy. Her interest for block-printed started in 2012 and since then she published relevant contributions to the field and contributed to various international congress and seminars in Berlin, New York, and Hamburg.