Silvia Ronchey

Silvia Ronchey (born 1958) is an Italian author, byzantinist, and professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Universita degli Studi Roma Tre in Rome, Italy.
Biography
After studying at the Universities of Pisa (Laurea in Classics, 1981) and Florence (PhD in Byzantine Philology, 1989), Ronchey completed her paleographical training at the Libraries of the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in Patmos and of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Alexandria, Egypt. In the early nineties she conducted extended periods of research at the Centre de Recherches d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance of the College de France in Paris and the Dumbarton Oaks Institute of Byzantine Studies in Washington D.C., where she collaborated with Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan.
Ronchey's publications include monographs focusing on Byzantine literature, history, and civilization, as well as their Nachleben in modernity and the contemporary age. Ronchey's major foci of interest include Michael Psellus, Eustathius of Thessaloniki, the Barlaam and Ioasaph, and Bessarion. In addition, over the last thirty years, Silvia Ronchey is the scholar who has delved most thoroughly into the figure of Hypatia of Alexandria, researching her ethical, philosophical, religious, and political character, as well as the circumstances of her assassination.
Ronchey has authored and hosted cultural tv and radio shows in Italy, and conducted interviews with some of the major cultural figures of recent decades, such as Claude Levi-Strauss, James Hillman, Ernst Junger, Jean-Pierre Vernant, and Elemire Zolla.
Her encounter with James Hillman, in particular, initiated a long-running collaboration, resulting in several television interviews and three books: L'anima del mondo, Il piacere di pensare, and L'ultima immagine, Hillman's last published work.
Selected works
Hypatia. The True Story, Berlin - Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
James Hillman - S. Ronchey, L'ultima immagine, Milano, Rizzoli, 2021.
La Cattedrale sommersa. Alla ricerca del sacro perduto, Collana Saggi italiani, Milano, Rizzoli, 2017; Best BUR 2018.
S. Ronchey - P. Cesaretti (a cura di), Eustathii Thessalonicensis Exegesis in canonem iambicum pentecostalem, Berlino - New York, De Gruyter, 2014.
Ipazia. La vera storia, Milano, Rizzoli, 2010 (Premio Nazionale Letterario Pisa 2012, Premio Teocle 2011 Premio Citta delle Rose 2011) e 20156; nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata, Milano, BUR, 2022.
S. Ronchey - T. Braccini, Il romanzo di Costantinopoli, guida letteraria alla Roma d'Oriente, Torino, Einaudi, 2010 (Premio De Lollis 2011, Premio Roma: menzione speciale 2011) e 20162.
L'enigma di Piero. L'ultimo bizantino e la crociata fantasma nella rivelazione di un grande quadro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2006 (Premio Elsa Morante 2006, Premio Frontino-Montefeltro 2006, Premio Bevilacqua 2007) e 20174; piero*detsura*huranchiesuka<<kirisutonoBian Da chi>> noMi woJie ku:Zui Hou nobizanteinRen toJin Dai noShi mari. Japanese edition of L'Enigma di Piero, Tokyo, Hakusuisha, 2019.
Lo Stato Bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002 (Premio Finale Ligure 2003, Premio Capalbio 2003) e 20192.
James Hillman, Il piacere di pensare, Conversazione con Silvia Ronchey, Milano, Rizzoli, 2001 e 20222; BUR 2004 e 20134.
James Hillman, L'anima del mondo, Conversazione con Silvia Ronchey, Milano, Rizzoli, 1999; BUR 2001.
Aleksandr Petrovic Kazdan - S. Ronchey, L'aristocrazia bizantina. Dal principio dell'XI alla fine del XII secolo, Palermo, Sellerio, 1997, 19992 con postfazione di Luciano Canfora.