Pasquale Orsini (born 1970) is an Italian

palaeographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...

, librarian, and Professor from Università di Catania-Siracusa.

Life

Orsini studied at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a Public university, public research university l ...

. He was a pupil of prof.

Guglielmo Cavallo Guglielmo Cavallo (born 18 August 1938 in Carovigno) is an Italian palaeographer, Emeritus Professor of the Sapienza University of Rome. Life Cavallo graduated from the University of Bari in 1961, with Carlo Ferdinando Russo; shortly after, he ...

. He works at the Università di Catania-Siracusa. In 2004 he became a member of the Associazione Italiana Manoscritti Datati.Pasquale Orsini
He examined and described Uncial 059, 082, 0321, and manuscripts housed in the

Biblioteca Malatestiana The Malatestiana Library (), also known as the Malatesta Novello Library, is a public library in the city of Cesena in northern Italy. Purpose-built from 1447 to 1452 and opened in 1454, and named after the local aristocrat Malatesta Novello, it i ...

, in

Cesena Cesena (; rgn, Cisêna) is a city and ''comune'' in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, served by Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine Mountains, about from the Adriatic Sea. The total population is 97,137. History Cesena was o ...

Works

* ''Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Cassino'', 2005 (Collana scientifica, Studi Archeologici, Artistici, Filologici, Letterari e Storici, 7). * Pasquale Orsini, P. Radiciotti
''I frammenti della Qubbat al-khazna di Damasco. A proposito di una scoperta sottovalutata''
"Nea Rhome" 5 (2008), pp. 45–74.

References

External links

Pasquale Orsini
AIPD

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