Lellia Cracco Ruggini (20 September 1931 – 27 June 2021) was an Italian historian of Late Antiquity and professor emerita of the University of Turin.
She specialized in the period from the second to seventh centuries AD.
[3][4] From 1957 to 1968 Ruggini taught Greek and Roman history at the University of Pavia, becoming Libera Docente of Roman history and Latin epigraphy in 1963.
She held fellowships of the Italian Institute of Historical Study “Benedetto Croce” at Naples, the School for Advanced Studies at Paris, at the American Academy in Rome and twice made fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton New Jersey.
[3] She was a member of the Turin Academy of Science, the Lincean Academy, the National Society of Antiquaries of France (since 1991), the Institute of France, the European Academy at London, the Association for Late Antiquity at Paris and the Association for Late Antique Studies at Naples.