Dr. Elisa Bianchi got her MA in Byzantine Philology from the Catholic University – Milan in 2011. She pursued her PhD in Greek Paleography at the University of Rome La Sapienza (2015) with a thesis focused on the Fettaugen-Mode and the graphic framework of the second half of the 13th century. In the most recent years, she participated in numerous cataloging projects on Greek manuscripts in various historical libraries in northern Italy. Furthermore, as part of a post-doctoral research project at the University of Bologna (2020-2021, and 2021-2022), she studied manuscript production in Venetian and Bolognese 16th century. From January 2023, she will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study of the University of London as part of the AHRC-funded project “Greek manuscripts in Renaissance Venice: the library of Guillaume Pellicier and its contribution to Europe’s intellectual heritage”.
In June-September 2022, as a guest researcher at UGent, where she carried out paleographical research on six Palaeologan manuscripts dealing with Sophoclean tragedies (especially Ajax and Electra) combined with Moschopoulean scholiastic material, in order to provide a detailed overview of the copyists and scholiasts participating in the arrangement of text and commentary of each witness. In a forthcoming article, she will present the overall structure of these six manuscripts and the stratigraphy of the scholiastic material within Ajax and Electra.