Vittorio S. Tomelleri is a classical philologist by training and a Slavist by vocation, with a deep passion for historical-comparative linguistics and Caucasology. Striving for a multidisciplinary approach combining linguistics and philology, he has contributed to the analysis and critical edition of Latin-to-Church Slavonic translations from Novgorod (late 15th to early 16th century) and has taken part in an editorial project on Byzantine-Slavic hymnography, focusing in particular on the Eastern-Slavic tradition of the liturgical Menaion. His research interests also include Old Russian grammars, typological-comparative studies of Slavic aspect, missionary linguistics in Georgia, the history of Soviet linguistics (especially Marr’s Japhetic theory), language planning, with special attention to debates surrounding alphabets in the Caucasus region, and, last but not least, the Ossetic language and culture.