Guglielmo_Cavallo

Guglielmo Cavallo

Guglielmo Cavallo

Italian palaeographer

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

Life

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. In 1969, he moved to Rome and first became assistant of Greek Palaeography at the Special School for Archivists and Librarians (then Professor of Latin paleography since 1975), also teaching 'Storia della tradizione manoscritta' (History of the manuscript tradition) at the 'Sapienza' University of Rome. In 1978, he became Professor of Greek Palaeography in Rome.[1] He retired from his teaching duties in 2008 and was nominated Emeritus.

As of 2022, he is the President of the Comitato per l'edizione nazionale dei classici greci e latini (i.e. 'Committee for the National Edition of Greek and Latin Classical [Texts]') and Coordinator of its periodical journal, the Bollettino dei Classici.[2]

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.[3] His first major academic publication was an extensive study of Greek uncial (also known as 'Biblical uncial').[4] 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.[5] In 1983, Cavallo produced the first catalogue of Greek hands found in the Herculaneum papyri.[6]

He examined and described Codex Basilensis A. N. III. 12 and dated it to the early 8th century.[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). In 1997, with Giovanna Nicolaj, he founded the second series of the ChLA (Chartae Latinae Antiquiores series II – ChLA2), containing volumes L to CXVI and voll. CXVII (appendix to Italy) and CXVIII (appendix to Switzerland, Luxembourg and Spain).[10] 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.[11][12] In 2008, he published an handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography of papyri.[13]

With Italian philologist Luca Canali he edited a collection of Roman epigraphs with translation and commentary;[14] with Italian medievalist Giovanni Orlandi he edited the Histories of Rodulfus Glaber;[15] in 2017, he wrote the introduction to the first volume of the Italian edition of Niketas Choniates' History.[16] In 2023, he published a new, collected edition of the 'canons' or lists of exemplary Greek authors from the antiquity to Byzantium.[17]

He authored and/or edited around 500 scientific works, some of which have been translated into foreign languages.[18][19]

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 work on Greek uncial.[20] Ten years later, Armando Petrucci praised Cavallo as the "greatest specialist" in Greek Palaeography.[21]

Works

The complete bibliography up to 2004 can be found in Degni, Paola; Maniaci, Marilena, eds. (2004). Bibliografia degli scritti di Guglielmo Cavallo (1963-2004). I libri di Viella 39. Roma: Viella. ISBN 9788883341236.

Books

Editions of texts

  • Canali, Luca; Cavallo, Guglielmo, eds. (1998) [1991]. Graffiti latini. Scrivere sui muri a Roma antica (II ed.). Milano: Rizzoli. ISBN 9788817172585.
  • Rodulfus Glaber (2005) [I ed. 1989]. Cavallo, Guglielmo; Orlandi, Giovanni (eds.). Cronache dell'anno Mille (Storie). Scrittori Greci e Latini (VIII ed.). Milan: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla – Mondadori. ISBN 8804298839.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo, ed. (2023). Παραδείγματα. Le liste di autori greci esemplari dall'antichità a Bisanzio. Transmissions 8. Berlin – Boston: Walter De Gruyter GmbH. doi:10.1515/9783111027487. eISSN 2625-4026. ISBN 9783111027098. ISSN 2625-4018.

Facsimiles, specimina

  • Cavallo, Guglielmo; Maehler, Herwig, eds. (1987). Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period (A.D. 300–800). London: University of London – Institute of Classical Studies. ISBN 9780900587511.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo; Marichal, Robert; Tjäder, Jan-Olof, eds. (1986). Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Vol. XXV = Italy 06. Dietikon – Zurich: URS Graf. ISBN 3-85951-149-1.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo; Gribomont, Jeann; Loerke, William C., eds. (1985–1987). Codex purpureus Rossanensis. Museo dell'Arcivescovado, Rossano Calabro. Codices mirabiles 1. Roma – Graz: Salerno Editrice – Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt. ISBN 9788885026926.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo; Lilla, Salvatore; Orofino, Giulia, eds. (1988–1992). Erbario greco. Edizione integrale in facsimile del manoscritto Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, ex Vindob. Gr. 1. Codices mirabiles 2. Roma – Graz: Salerno Editrice – Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt. ISBN 8884020808.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo; Magistrale, Francesco; Tjäder, Jan-Olof, eds. (1993). Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Vol. XIX = Italy 10. Dietikon – Zurich: URS Graf. ISBN 3-85951-155-6.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo; Maehler, Herwig, eds. (2008). Hellenistic Bookhands. Berlin – Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. doi:10.1515/9783110210194. ISBN 9783110201246.

Monographs

Authored books
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo (1967a). Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica. Studi e Testi di Papirologia editi dall'Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» dell'Università di Firenze 2. Firenze: Le Monnier. ISBN 9788800876155.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo (1973). Rotoli di Exultet dell'Italia Meridionale. Preface by Armando Petrucci and including some contributions by Carlo Bertelli. Bari: Adriatica Editrice.
  • Belting, Hans; Cavallo, Gugliemo (1979). Der Bible des Niketas. Ein Werk der höfischen Buchkunst in Byzanz und sein antikes Vorbild. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo (1983). Libri, scritture, scribi a Ercolano. Supplementi a Cronache Ercolanesi 1. Napoli: Gaetano Macchiaroli.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo (2002). Dalla parte del libro. Storie di trasmissione dei classici. Ludus philologiae 10. Urbino: Quattroventi. ISBN 9788839206237.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo (2005). Del Corso, Lucio (ed.). Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio. Papyrologica Florentina 36. Firenze: Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli. ISBN 9788874680276.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo (2008). La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri. Una introduzione. Pisa – Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore. ISBN 9788862270144.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo (2019). Scrivere e leggere nella città antica. Roma: Carocci. ISBN 9788843095827.
Edited books
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo, ed. (1982). I bizantini in Italia. Milano: Garzanti – Scheiwiller.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo, ed. (1992) [1989]. Libri, editori e pubblico nel mondo antico. Guida storica e critica. Biblioteca Universale Laterza (II ed.). Roma – Bari: Laterza. ISBN 8842034959.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo; Chartier, Roger, eds. (1995). Storia della lettura nel mondo occidentale. Roma – Bari: Laterza. ISBN 9788842047544.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo, ed. (1997). The Byzantines. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226097923.
  • Cavallo, Guglielmo, ed. (2004). La cultura bizantina. Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo 3/1. Roma: Salerno Editrice. ISBN 9788884024565.

Papers, essays

Papers followed by (*) have been reprinted with addenda in Il calamo e il papiro (2005).

References

  1. [1]
    Guglielmo Cavallo Archived 2017-07-07 at the Wayback Machine AIPD
  2. [2]
    "Comitato per l'edizione nazionale dei classici greci e latini | Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei". www.lincei.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  3. [3]
    Lehnus, Luigi (2018). "Ricordo di Nanni Orlandi". Filologia Mediolatina. 25: X.
  4. [4]
    Cavallo 1967a.
  5. [5]
    Cavallo 1977.
  6. [6]
    Cavallo 1983.
  7. [7]
    Cavallo, Gribomont & Loerke 1985–1987.
  8. [8]
    Cavallo, Lilla & Orofino 1988–1992.
  9. [9]
    Cavallo, Magistrale & Tjäder 1993.
  10. [10]
    "Le Chartae Latinae Antiquiores e le storie dell'Italia carolingia | Sapienza - Università di Roma". scuolabal.uniroma1.it. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  11. [11]
    Cavallo & Maehler 1987.
  12. [12]
    Cavallo & Maehler 2008.
  13. [13]
    Cavallo 2008.
  14. [14]
    Canali & Cavallo 1998.
  15. [15]
    Rodulfus Glaber 2005.
  16. [16]
    Niketas Choniates 2017.
  17. [17]
    Cavallo 2023.
  18. [18]
    Degni & Maniaci 2004.
  19. [19]
    "Guglielmo Cavallo - Biografia". Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  20. [20]
    Canart, Paul (1970). "Les travaux de Guglielmo Cavallo sur la majuscule grecque". Byzantion. 40 (1): 218–225. JSTOR 44170292 – via JSTOR. [...] l'intérêt que suscitent, pour la période où domine l'écriture majuscule (plus connue, en paléographie grecque, sus le nom d'onciale), les recherches de G. Cavallo, qui sont déjà concrétisées dans plusieurs publications importantes. Sans être moi-même spécialiste de l'étude de la majuscule, j'en ai beaucoup apprécié la portée méthodologique, que je voudrais souligner à l'intention des lecteurs de Byzantion. [...] un des grands mérites de Cavallo [...] est d'avoir appliqué à l'étude de l'écriture grecque des concepts et des méthodes qui ont [...] renouvelé celle de l'écriture latine. Il n'est pas le premier à l'avoir fait, mais personne, avant lui, ne s'en était servi de manière aussi consciente et aussi systématique. (pp. 218f.)
  21. [21]
    Petrucci, Armando (1980). "La Paléographie grecque et byzantine. Paris 21–25 octobre 1974 [review]". Scriptorium. 34 (2): 305 – via Persée.com. La relazione di Cavallo, il massimo specialista del settore [...]
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