Guglielmo Cavallo
Guglielmo Cavallo (born 18 August 1938 in Carovigno) is an Italian palaeographer, Emeritus Professor of the Sapienza University of Rome. Life. Cavallo graduated from the University of Bari in 1961. In 1969, he moved to Rome and first became assistant of the Greek Palaeography Special School for Archivists and Librarians (then Professor of Latin paleography since 1975), and teaching 'Storia della tradizione manoscritta' (History of the manuscript tradition) at the 'Sapienza' University of Rome. Since 1978, he has been Full Professor of Greek Palaeography in Rome. He retired from his teaching duties in 2008 and was nominated Emeritus . Research activity. Cavallo is one of the leading Italian palaeographers, specializing in papyrology, Greek and Latin writing of the Ancient and Medieval times and history of the manuscript tradition. His first work was an extensive study of Greek uncial (also known as 'Biblical uncial'). In 1974, he delivered a paper at the International Colloquium of Greek Palaeography held in Paris, proposing a new method for studying Greek uncial of the VIII–IX centuries. In 1983, Cavallo produced the first catalogue of Greek hands found in the Herculaneum papyri. He examined and described Codex Basilensis A. N. III. 12 and dated  it to the early 8th century. He examined Papyrus 39, Uncial 059, 0175, 0187, Lectionary 1386 and many other Greek manuscripts from the Byzantine period and organized and directed facsimile editions of Greek manuscripts such as the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis and the Dioscurides Neapolitanus and the 25th and the 19th volumes of the "Chartae Latinae Antiquiores" (ChLA). In 1997, with Giovanna Nicolaj, he founded the second series of the ChLA ("Chartae Latinae Antiquiores" series II – ChLA), containing volumes L to CXVI and voll. CXVII (appendix to Italy) and CXVIII (appendix to Switzerland, Luxembourg and Spain). He also edited facsimiles of  Greek and Latin manuscripts and two collections of reproductions, with commentary, of Greek literary hands from the early Byzantine and Hellenistic periods, with H. Maehler. In 2008, he wrote a manual of Greek and Latin Palaeography of papyri. With Italian philologist Luca Canali he edited a collection of Roman epigraphs with translation and commentary; with Italian medievalist Giovanni Orlandi he edited the "Histories" of Rodulfus Glaber; in 2017, he wrote the introduction to the first volume of the Italian edition of Niketas Choniates' "History". He authored and/or edited around 300 scientific works. Reception of Cavallo's works by other scholars . In 1970, Paul Canart (then "scriptor Graecus" – i.e. conservator of Greek manuscripts – at the Vatican Library and one of the worldwide leading scholars in Greek palaeography) published an article praising Cavallo's works on Greek uncial. Ten years later, Armando Petrucci described Cavallo as the "major specialist" in Greek Palaeography. Works. The complete bibliography up to 2004 can be found in