Italo Pizzi (Parma, 30 November 1849 – Turin, 6 December 1920) was an Italian academic and scholar of Persian language and literature.

For this he went to the University of Pisa, studying among other things Hebrew and other Semitic languages and Sanskrit, as well as Italian literature.

An essay of his was published on Rostam and the Akvān Div, thanks to the active interest of Angelo De Gubernatis.

[2] After graduating in 1871, he began working as a teacher of literature in his native city, without ever abandoning his interest in Orientalism and, more specifically, Iranian languages.

On 11 May 1885 he obtained a teaching position at the University of Turin, moving to the Piedmontese capital with his wife, who would bring their only son, Carlo, into the world the following year.