Maria Pia Pedani (19 October 1952 - 1° March 2019) was an Italian historian and an honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu).
She worked in the Venetian Archive from 1979 to 1999, after which she earned the position of associate professor in the department of Asian and North African Studies.
She was known for her research studies dealing with Ottoman-Venetian relations through peace treaties, descriptions of frontiers, and diplomatic documents.
In Turkish, she published such works as In the Name of the Ottoman Sultan: Ottomans Sent to Venice From the Conquest of Istanbul to the Cretan War [Osmanlı Padişahının Adına: İstanbul’un Fethinden Girit Savaşı’na Venedik’e Gönderilen Osmanlılar (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2011)]; Venice, the Port of the East [Doğu’nun Kapısı Venedik (İstanbul: Küre Yayınları, 2015) / original title: Venezia, Porta d’Oriente (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2010)]; and The Great Ottoman Kitchen [Osmanlı’nın Büyük Mutfağı (Ankara: Hece Yayınları, 2018) / original title La grande cucina ottomana (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012].
[2] Pedani published one article in the Türkiye Diyanet Foundation’s Encyclopedia of Islam (TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi).