Antonio Panaino, Andrea Piras, Preface; Antonio Panaino, Opening >Speech of the Fifth Conference of Iranian Studies; Gherardo Gnoli, Twenty Years on; Romano Prodi, Message to the Organizers and Participants at the 5th European Conference of Iranian Studies; Bahram Qassemi, Address to the Organizers and Participants; Classical Iranian Studies: Bahram Adjerloo, Seyed Amir Mansouri; Asya Asbaghi; Alessandro Cancian; Simone Cristoforetti; Giovanni M. D’Erme; Heidi Ghomi; Justine Landau; Roxanne D. Marcotte; Fabio Martelli; Hamed Mazaherian; Daniela Meneghini; Mehdi Najafi Afra; Laura E. Parodi; Natalia Prigarina; Nosratollah Rastegar; Giorgio Rota; Soheila Saremi; Ghassan Sayaf; Alessandro Scafi; Abolala Soudavar; Hadi Sultan-Qurraie; Iván Szántó; Mostafa Younesie; Riccardo Zipoli; Contemporary Iranian Studies; Ferdows Aghagolzadeh; Sabir Badalkhan;Hassan Rezai Baghbidi; Gerardo Barbera; Gabriele Cavalletti; Zohreh Fanni; Ela Filippone;Daniele Guizzo; Homa Haji Alimohammadi; Éva M. Jeremiás; Farideh Madjidi Khameneh; Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam; Claus V. Pedersen; Angelo Michele Piemontese; Adriano V. Rossi; Maia Sakhokia; Chiara Semenzato; Alessandro Vanoli; Sanavbar Vohidowa; Appendix: Velizar Sadovski.