Alessio Peršič

Alessio Peršič, native of Friuli region, Italy, studied Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and at the State University of Trieste, majoring in Ancient Greek History. He is now a professor of Hagiography, History of Christian Liturgy, History of the Ancient Church and Patristics at the Faculty of Humanities and at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of the Catholic University of Milan; he teaches courses in Patrology also at the Theological Faculty of Padua. He deals mainly with the early Greek Christian writers, but without neglecting the Latin authors of Aquileia.