Elpidio Mioni

Elpidio Mioni (8 October 1911 – 6 September 1991) was an Italian palaeographer, Byzantinist and librarian, Professor of Greek Paleography at the University of Padua.

[1][2] In 1958 he joined to the University of Padua and taught Ancient Christian Literature (1958–1960), Byzantine philology (1960–1967) and Greek Palaeography (1960–1974).

[1] In 1968 Mioni and Filippo Maria Pontani jointly founded the Institute of Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies in the same university.

As a librarian and palaeographer, his major contributions were his cataloguing of Greek manuscripts held in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice[4] and in other Italian libraries.

[15] Additionally, he wrote several entries for the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani,[16] and the article on John Moschus for the Dictionnaire de Spiritualité.