Guido Bastianini


Guido Bastianini was an Italian papyrologist and palaeographer.

Life and career

Bastianini was born in Florence on 10 September 1945. He completed his papyrological studies in Florence in 1970.
He took part in various archaeological missions in Egypt organized by the Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli" and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, both on the excavation of Antinoe.
His appointment as Lecturer in Papyrology at the University of Florence was immediately followed by the appointment as Full Professor of Papyrology at the University of Milan, where he also directed the Papyrological Institute of the same university and served as President of the council of the Faculty of Humanities. In Milan Bastianini, together with Claudio Gallazzi, studied the papyri held by the University collection and published several studies concerning papyrology and the history of the discipline; in these years, he examined, revised and published several papyri held by various collections.
He returned to Florence in 1998 and in 1999, he became director of Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli". From 2001 to 2007, was president of the Italian Institute for the Egyptian civilization. In 2015 he retired and was nominated Emeritus. During his teaching career, he also was involved in university administration, both in Milan and in Florence.
Bastianini examined and described Papyrus 93, Milan Papyrus, and several other manuscripts written on papyrus.
With Claudio Gallazzi he edited the Milan Papyrus ; with other scholars he edited two volumes of the Papiri della Società Italiana —the first two appeared since 1957.
Bastianini died in Florence on 18 November 2025, at the age of 80.

Works

  • G. Bastianini - J. Whitehorne, Strategi and Royal Scribes of Roman Egypt, Firenze, Gonnelli 1987.
  • Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta ediderunt G. Bastianini, M. Haslam, H. Maehler, F. Montanari, C. Römer, adiuvante M. Stroppa, Pars I. Commentaria et Lexica in Auctores, Vol. 1. Fasc. 1: Aeschines-Alcaeus, München-Leipzig, Saur 2004.
  • Commentaria et Lexica Greca in Papyris reperta ediderunt G. Bastianini, M. Haslam, H. Maehler, F. Montanari, C. Römer, adiuvante M. Stroppa, I.1.4, München-Leipzig 2006, XXXII+310 pp.
  • Bastianini G. - Gallazzi C., Papiri dell’Università di Milano - Posidippo di Pella. Epigrammi, LED Edizioni Universitarie, Milano, 2001,
  • Austin C. - Bastianini G.,, LED Edizioni Universitarie, Milano, 2002,