 The Portuguese government and National Commission for Discoveries awarded him the Don John de Castro Prize in International History (1994).In 1994, Kirti Chaudhuri founded Gallery Schifanoia and its associated imprint house Schifanoia Firenze to exhibit, print, and publish his artistic and literary works along with the works of other artists and writers.The chance purchase of two rare books, the facsimile edition of the "Calligraphic Models of Ludovico Degli Arrighi surnamed Vicento" (1525) and the Socratic dialogue "Crito" by Plato, hand printed by Hans Mardersteig in Montagnola in 1926, led Chaudhuri to the idea of founding a printing and publishing enterprise similar to Mardersteig’s Officina Bodoni, which was later transferred to Verona and joined to the letter-press printing house Stamperia Valdonega.