Attilio Degrassi
{{Short description|Italian Latin scholar and archeologist (1887–1969)}}
Attilio Degrassi (Trieste, 21 June 1887 – Rome, 1 June 1969) was an archeologist and pioneering Italian scholar of Latin epigraphy.{{cite book|author=Ruggero F. Rossi|title=Scritti di storia romana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HdI7AAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Università degli Studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze dellʼAntichità}}{{page needed|date=May 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Panciera |first1=Silvio |title=Attilio Degrassi |journal=Gnomon |date=1971 |volume=43 |issue=7 |pages=733–736 |jstor=27685342 }}
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|date=May 2022}}
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|date=May 2022}} He was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1958.{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Attilio+Degrassi&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}
''ILLRP''
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.{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Lily Ross |title=Review of Inscriptiones Latinae liberae rei publicae, fasc. prior |journal=Classical Philology |date=1959 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=142–144 |doi=10.1086/364369 |jstor=266345 }} ILLRP "largely replaced" the first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum LatinarumArthur E. Gordon, Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy (University of California Press, 1983), p. 9. 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.S. Irvin Oost, Classical Philology 60, No. 1, Jan., 1965, p. 79.
Works
- Inscriptiones Italiae (1937–1963)
- I fasti consolari dell'impero romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (1952).
- Fasti Capitolini (1954).
- 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).{{cite book|author=Atilius Degrassi|title=Inscriptiones Latinae liberae rei publicae: Fasc. 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQVIxgEACAAJ|year=1957|publisher=La Nuova Italia}}
- 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); [https://books.google.com/books?id=iCvhmaamcVkC images]
- Epigrafia latina. Con un'appendice bibliografica di Attilio Degrassi (1968).{{cite book|author1=Ida Calabi Limentani|author2=Attilio Degrassi|title=Epigrafia latina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Js6O_i8bbiwC|year=1968|publisher=Istituto editoriale cisalpino}}
- Epigrafia: actes du Colloque international d'épigraphie latine en mémoire de Attilio Degrassi (1988).
Notes
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Sources
- Franco Sartori. "Attilio Degrassi (1887-1969)," in Praelectiones Patavinae (1972) 75–87.
- {{cite journal |last1=Panciera |first1=Silvio |title=Attilio Degrassi |journal=Gnomon |date=1971 |volume=43 |issue=7 |pages=733–736 |jstor=27685342 }}
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Category:Italian classical scholars
Category:Members of the Lincean Academy
Category:Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
Category:International members of the American Philosophical Society