Attilio Degrassi

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Attilio Degrassi (Trieste, 21 June 1887 – Rome, 1 June 1969) was an archeologist and pioneering Italian scholar of Latin epigraphy.[1][2]

Degrassi taught at the university of Padova where he trained, among others, the epigraphist Silvio Panciera, currently on the faculty of the University of Rome "La Sapienza".[citation needed]

As an epigraphist Degrassi was extremely influential, not only in collecting and publishing inscriptions, but also in defining the discipline and training some of those who would become its leading practitioners.[citation needed] He was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1958.[3]

ILLRP[edit]

Especially influential was Degrassi's work Inscriptiones latinae liberae rei publicae (abbreviated ILLRP), a collection of Latin inscriptions from the Roman Republic that appeared between 1957 and 1963 in two volumes.[4] ILLRP "largely replaced" the first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum[5] and was accessible to scholars and students alike. The ILLRP is frequently referenced for the fasti consulares. A review of the work in the journal Classical Philology praised the quality of Degrassi's editing and the importance of the collection.[6]

Works[edit]

  1. Inscriptiones Italiae (1937–1963)
  2. I fasti consolari dell'impero romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (1952).
  3. Fasti Capitolini (1954).
  4. Il confine nord-orientale dell'Italia romana : ricerche storico-topografiche (1954).
  5. Quattuorviri in colonie romane e in municipi retti da duoviri (1957).
  6. Inscriptiones latinae liberae rei publicae (1957–1963).[7]
  7. Scritti vari di antichità, raccolti da amici e allievi nel 75° compleanno dell'autore (1962).
  8. Inscriptiones Latinae liberae rei publicae: imagines. Consilio et auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum (1965); images
  9. Epigrafia latina. Con un'appendice bibliografica di Attilio Degrassi (1968).[8]
  10. Epigrafia: actes du Colloque international d'épigraphie latine en mémoire de Attilio Degrassi (1988).

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Ruggero F. Rossi (1996). Scritti di storia romana. Università degli Studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze dellʼAntichità.[page needed]
  2. ^ Panciera, Silvio (1971). "Attilio Degrassi". Gnomon. 43 (7): 733–736. JSTOR 27685342.
  3. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  4. ^ Taylor, Lily Ross (1959). "Review of Inscriptiones Latinae liberae rei publicae, fasc. prior". Classical Philology. 54 (2): 142–144. doi:10.1086/364369. JSTOR 266345.
  5. ^ Arthur E. Gordon, Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy (University of California Press, 1983), p. 9.
  6. ^ S. Irvin Oost, Classical Philology 60, No. 1, Jan., 1965, p. 79.
  7. ^ Atilius Degrassi (1957). Inscriptiones Latinae liberae rei publicae: Fasc. 1. La Nuova Italia.
  8. ^ Ida Calabi Limentani; Attilio Degrassi (1968). Epigrafia latina. Istituto editoriale cisalpino.

Sources[edit]

  • Franco Sartori. "Attilio Degrassi (1887-1969)," in Praelectiones Patavinae (1972) 75–87.
  • Panciera, Silvio (1971). "Attilio Degrassi". Gnomon. 43 (7): 733–736. JSTOR 27685342.