Silvia Ronchey
After studying at the Universities of Pisa (Laurea in Classics, 1981) and Florence (PhD in Byzantine Philology, 1989), Ronchey completed her paleographical training at the Libraries of the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in Patmos and of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Alexandria, Egypt. In the early nineties she conducted extended periods of research at the Centre de Recherches d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance of the Collège de France in Paris and the Dumbarton Oaks Institute of Byzantine Studies in Washington D.C., where she collaborated with Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan.