Luigi Silvano graduated from the University of Turin (1999), where he also obtained his PhD in Greek, Latin, and Byzantine Philology and Literature (2005). He has been a visiting researcher and fellow at various universities and research institutes in Italy and abroad (Aarhus Universitet; KU Leuven; OAW, Institut für Byzanzforschung, Vienna; Villa I Tatti, Harvard/Florence; FU Berlin; Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien, Innsbruck; etc.); he is an associate member of the Équipe d'accueil SAPRAT, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He was a researcher and adjunct professor of Byzantine Civilization at Sapienza University of Rome (2011-2015), then at the University of Turin, where he has been a full professor of Greek and Latin Philology since 2024. He teaches Classical Philology, Greek and Latin Humanistic Philology, and Byzantine Philology. His main research interests include cultural relations between the Greek East and the Latin West in the Middle Ages and Humanism; the reception of the classics in Byzantium and Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries; Byzantine literature (apocalyptic literature, visions of the afterlife, polemical and dogmatic treatises, the reception of Homer, the miracles of Saint Mena, etc.); in the field of Greek literature, he has worked on the tradition and ecdotics of medical and scientific texts. He is co-editor of “Medioevo greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina” (Greek Middle Ages. Journal of Byzantine History and Philology).