Guglielmo Cavallo

Guglielmo Cavallo (born 18 August 1938 in Carovigno) is an Italian palaeographer and Byzantinist, Emeritus Professor of the Sapienza University of Rome.

Cavallo graduated from the University of Bari in 1961, tutored by Carlo Ferdinando Russo; shortly after, he became assistant of Alessandro Pratesi, then Professor of palaeography and diplomatic.

[2] 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.

[4] 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[7] and the Dioscurides Neapolitanus[8] and the 25th[9] and the 19th[9] volumes of the Chartae Latinae Antiquiores (ChLA).

[16] In 2023, he published a new, collected edition of the 'canons' or lists of exemplary Greek authors from the antiquity to Byzantium.

[20] Ten years later, Armando Petrucci praised Cavallo as the "greatest specialist" in Greek Palaeography.