Emilio Gabba (31 March 1927 – 12 August 2013) was an Italian historian who specialised in Roman history.
[2] A pupil of Plinio Fraccaro at Pavia from 1949 to 1950, he started there a close working relationship with fellow Romanist Arnaldo Momigliano.
[4] Some of his important later works were a commentary on Appian's Civil Wars, a book on the Greek historians who lived during the Principate, and a book on the army and society of the late Roman Republic.
[6] He became director of the ancient history journal Athenaeum, published by the University of Pavia, in 1990 and later became head of the Italian Historical Review in 1995.
[5] He had more than 800 published works and received honorary degrees from many prestigious institutions.