Ronchey, S. “Steven Runciman, un dandy bizantino.” S. Runciman, La teocrazia bizantina. Trans. V. Peri. Milan: Sansoni, 2003. 7-14.

In this brief bio-bibliographical profile, Steven Runciman’s passion for Byzantium is described for what is was: not mere academic interest, but the expression of a long, intense life in which attention to and active participation in 20^th century international politics – in particular, the upheavals in the European-Oriental theatre - combined with strict pursuit of erudition; and in which intellectual curiosity, literary talent, aesthetic originality, and the ease and confidence of historical vision were dominated by faultless dandyism.