Luigi Silvano holds a degree in Classics (1999) and a PhD in Greek, Latin and Byzantine Literature and Philology (2005) both awarded by the University of Torino. He has been research associate in Byzantine Studies and stipendiary at the same institution (2007-2011). Since December 1, 2011 he has been Assistant Professor ("ricercatore universitario") in Byzantine Studies at the University of Rome La Sapienza; after four years in Rome he moved back to the University of Torino (November 1, 2015). He has presented papers at several national and international conferences, and organized international conferences and seminars. He has been visiting scholar and research stipendiary in universities and research institutes in Italy and abroad: Dept. of Classics, Aarhus University (2005/6); Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2009); Institut für Byzanzforschung, Vienna (2011); Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Firenze (2011); Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, équipe d’accueil SAPRAT (2014); Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie (2015); Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck (2016-2017). Since 2008 he is member of the redaction committee, and since 2014 co-director of the scholarly journal Medioevo greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina (vd. www.medioevogreco.it). His main research interests focus on the reception of the Classics in Byzantium and in Renaissance Italy; on ancient Greek problemata literature (Pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisias); on the relations between Byzantium and the West; on Byzantine literature (apocalypses, oracles, short edifying stories); on the teaching of the Greek language in Renaissance Europe.