Ronchey, S. Introduction. “La dama con un neo sulla guancia.” Peter Schreiner, Costantinopoli. Italian trans. B. Heinemann Campana. Rome: Salerno, 2009. vii-xiii.

For centuries Constantinople has elicited profound fascination and visceral passion in its most intimate connoisseurs.  Among these is Peter Schreiner, assiduous visitor of the Polis since 1968, who has made “Byzantinity” both a cultural category and a lifestyle.