Guglielmo Cavallo


Guglielmo Cavallo is an Italian Greek palaeographer and professor from the Sapienza University of Rome.

Life

Cavallo graduated from the University of Bari in 1961. In 1969, he moved to Rome and became the first assistant of the Greek Palaeography Special School for Archivists and Librarians, and professor of the History of the manuscript tradition at the 'Sapienza University of Rome'. Since 1978, he has been professor of Greek Palaeography in Rome.
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.

Works