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Emilio Gabba (1927-2013). He was an Italian historian and academic, professor of Roman History at the University of Pisa (1958-1974) and Pavia (1974-1996), where after his retirement he was appointed Professor Emeritus.

He studied in Pavia with Plinio Fraccaro and in 1949-50 he received a scholarship from the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici in Naples, then directed by Federico Chabod. In his teaching at the universities of Pisa and Pavia, he deepened the history of Roman historiography and the study of military, social, economic and political aspects of the ancient world.

A 1955 Fulbright scholar at the American Academy in Rome, Gabba was visiting professor at Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and twice Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1973; 1985). In 1980 he gave the Sather Classical Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. He received an honorary degree from the universities of Dijon, Strasbourg and Mainz. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, the Accademia delle Scienze of Turin, the British Academy, the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He was director of «Athenaeum». After the death of Franco Venturi, he directed from 1995 to 2005 the «Rivista storica italiana».

Works: - Appiano e la storia delle guerre civili, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1956. - Appiani bellorum civilium liber primus, ed. by E. Gabba, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1958. - Appianus. Bellorum Civilium liber quintus, ed. by E. Gabba, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1970. - Esercito e società nella tarda repubblica romana, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1973 - Republican Rome, the Army and the Allies, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1976 - Per la storia dell'esercito romano in età imperiale, Bologna, Patron, 1974. - Strutture agrarie e allevamento transumante nell'Italia romana (with M. Pasquinucci), Pisa, Giardini, 1979. - Del buon uso della ricchezza: saggi di storia economica e sociale del mondo antico, Milano, Guerini e associati, 1988. - Dyonisius and The History of Archaic Rome, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991. - Aspetti culturali dell'imperialismo romano, Firenze, Sansoni, 1993. - ''Italia romana, Como, New Press, 1994. - Cultura classica e storiografia moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 1995. - ''Roma arcaica. Storia e storiografia'', Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2000. - Storia e letteratura antica, Bologna, il Mulino, 2001. - Riflessioni storiografiche sul mondo antico, Como, New Press, 2007. - Conversazione sulla storia, ed. by U. Laffi, Pisa-Cagliari, Della Porta Editori, 2009.

Bibliography. - F. De Nicola, Le lettere di Arnaldo Momigliano a Emilio Gabba, Como, New Press 1998 - A. Baroni, Emilio Gabba: bibliografia 1949-1995, New Press, 1998 - D. Zoroddu, Emilio Gabba: bibliografia 1995-2006, New Press, 2008 - Emilio Gabba fra storia e storiografia del mondo antico, ed. by P. Desideri, M. A. Giua, Napoli, Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2011. - G. Bowersock, Emilio Gabba from an Anglo-American Perspective, in «Rivista storica italiana», 127 (2015), pp. 97-106. L. Troiani, Emilio Gabba (1927-2013), in «Dialogues d'histoire ancienne», 39 (2013), pp. 11-14. ''I percorsi di un historikos. In memoria di Emilio Gabba'', ed. by C. Carsana, L. Troiani, Como, New Press 2016. Emilio Gabba un maestro della storia antica, Roma, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2016