Consular Fasti is the name that modernists have given to the catalogue or chronological history of the list of consuls and other magistrates of Rome; such is the table of consuls that Riccioli included in his reorganized chronology, revised by P. Pagi; so is, as it were, the consular calendar, fasti consulares , printed by Almeloveen with short notes. But, to tell the truth, we are most indebted to the Italians for this genre: one cannot do without the fine works of Panvini, Sigonius, and others.

Onuphre Panvini, born in Verona in 1529, and died in 1568 in Palermo at the age of thirty-nine, left us excellent commentaries on the consular fasti , divided into four books, and published in Verona.

Charles Sigonius, born in 1529 in Modena, and died in 1584, is so remarkable for his writings on the consular fasti , victories, Roman magistrates, consuls, dictators, censors, etc. that he seems superior to all the writers who preceded him. However, the curious would do well to add to the books that have just been cited, the Dutchman Reland’s consular fasti because this short methodical work was made to explain the Justinian and Theodosian Codes, and this work was missing in the Republic of Letters.

Furthermore, information on the consular fasti interests scholars because there are few eras in all Western history more reliable than those drawn from the consuls, whether one considers the state of the Roman republic before Augustus or one follows the revolutions of this great empire up to the emperor Justinian.