- Attilio Degrassi
Attilio Degrassi (1887 – 1969) was a pioneering Italian scholar of Latin
epigraphy .Degrassi taught at the University of
Padova where he taught, among others, the epigraphistSilvio Panciera , currently on the faculty of the University of Rome "La Sapienza". [http://w3.uniroma1.it/archeologia/Docenti/Docente057/Pancieracv.htm]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. Especially influential was his work "Inscriptiones latinae liberae rei publicae" that appeared between 1957 and 1963 in two volumes. He published Republican Latin inscriptions (the "
fasti consulares ", for example) and made them accessible to scholars and students alike. A review of the work in the journal "Classical Philology" praised the quality of the editing and the importance of the collection. (vid. S. Irvin Oost "Classical Philology" 60, No. 1, Jan., 1965).References
* [OBITUARY] Franco Sartori. "Attilio Degrassi (1887-1969)," in "Praelectiones Patavinae" (1972) 75-87.
Works
#"Il confine nord-orientale dell'Italia romana : ricerche storico-topografiche" (1954).
#"Quattuorviri in colonie romane e in municipi retti da duoviri" (1957).
#"Inscriptiones latinae liberae rei publicae" (1957-1963).
#"Scritti vari di antichità, raccolti da amici e allievi nel 75°compleanno dell'autore" (1962).
#"Inscriptiones Latinae liberae rei publicae: imagines. Consilio et auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum" (1965).
#"Epigrafia latina. Con un'appendice bibliografica di Attilio Degrassi" (1968).
#" Epigrafia: actes du Colloque international d'épigraphie latine en mémoire de Attilio Degrassi" (1988).
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