Lellia Cracco Ruggini

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Lellia Cracco Ruggini (born September 20, 1931 in Milan , † June 27, 2021 in Turin ) was an Italian historian with a focus on antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Live and act

Lellia Ruggini published more than 300 works in the fields of economic and social history , the history of ideas as well as ancient and modern historiography with a special focus on the epoch between the 2nd and 7th centuries.

In 1963 she married Giorgio Cracco . The couple had two children, urologist Cecilia and lawyer Valeria Cracco. Between 1968 and 1975 she was director of the Istituto di Storia Antica in Turin , from 1963 she taught Roman and Greek history and Latin epigraphy at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia of the University of Turin between 1965 and 1967 as a freelance lecturer, then at the University of Pavia . Cracco Ruggini taught from 1968 to 1994 as a professor of Roman history at the University of Turin and was retired in 1995. She was co-editor of the Nuova Rivista Storica and the Rivista Storica Italiana . She was a Socia of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino , the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , the Société des antiquaires de France , the Institut de France , the Academia Europaea in London , the Association pour l'Antiquité Tardive in Paris and the Associazione di Studi Tardoantichi in Naples . In 1989 she became a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2010 she was elected as an external member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . She died in Turin on June 27, 2021 at the age of 89.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ebrei e orientali nell'Italia settentrionale fra il IV e il VI secolo D. Cr. , Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis, 1959.
  • Esperienze economiche e sociali nel mondo romano , Marzorati, 1968.
  • Strutture politiche e finanziarie della Grecia in età classica , G. Giappichelli, 1969.
  • Leggenda e realtà degli etiopi nella cultura tardoimperiale , Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1974.
  • with Giorgio Cracco : Changing Fortunes of the Italian City from Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages , Loescher, 1977.
  • Vettio agorio pretestato e la fondazione sacra di Costantinopoli , Giorgio Bretschneider, 1979.
  • La Sicilia tra Roma e Bisanzio , Società editrice Storia di Napoli e della Sicilia, 1980.
  • with Alberto Broglio: Storia di Vicenza. Il territorio, la preistoria, L'età romana , Neri Pozza, 1993.
  • with Alberto Broglio: Storia di Vicenza. L'età medievale , Neri Pozza, 1993.
  • with Alberto Broglio: Storia di Vicenza. L'età della repubblica Veneta, 1404-1797 , Neri Pozza, 1993.
  • with Alberto Broglio: Storia di Vicenza. L'età contemporanea , Neri Pozza, 1993.
  • with Paolo Cammarosano: Il Patriarcato di Aquileia. Uno stato nell'Europa medievale , Casamassima, 2000.
  • Gli ebrei in età tardoantica. Presenze, intolleranze, incontri , Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2011.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Prof. Giorgio Cracco , website of the Vicentine Istituto di Storia .
  2. ↑ Members: Lellia Cracco Ruggini. Academia Europaea, accessed January 4, 2021 .
  3. ^ Members since 1663: Cracco Ruggini, Lellia. Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, accessed on January 4, 2021 (French, with a short biography).
  4. ↑ Lellia Cracco Ruggini. In: accademiadellescienze.it. Retrieved June 27, 2021 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Cracco Ruggini, Lellia
SHORT DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Turin