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

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

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).