Journal founded on the occasion of the First International Congress of Epigraphy (Amsterdam 1939), by Aristide Calderini, professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, as a periodical intended for 'publishing new or already known epigraphic texts... welcoming studies on the technique, language, and history of epigraphy'. Eighty-four years later, 'Epigraphica' continues to be published, maintaining intact all its characteristics of internationality, scientificity in the study of Latin and Greek inscriptions, and the many problems of ancient epigraphy, while trying to maintain an operational, extremely concise, and concrete character. operational character, of extreme conciseness and concreteness.