Dr Alberto Camplani is Professor of Ancient Christian Literature at La Sapienza University in Rome and a specialist in Egyptology and Coptic culture. He therefore gave a lecture at the RIGG during the conference on the chronograph of 354 (picture). He has produced numerous important publications, including on the earliest history of the Church of Alexandria. He recently founded, together with his collegues, the Centre for the study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages at the Sapienza, and we can look forward to his research.