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Death came seeking Géza Alföldy at the height of his productivity at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens. It was a death similar to the one that came to Scipio in Africa, as Cicero recalls in De amicitia (3, 112): "Quam ob rem vita quidem talis fuit vel fortuna vel gloria ut nihil posset accedere, moriendi autem sensu celeritas abstulit". With him vanishes one of the leading representatives of scientific research in the 20th and early 21st centuries in the field of the ancient Roman history, as well as one of the best, if not the best, epigraphists of our day.

The study of the demographic characteristics of the first Mediterranean global network, the Roman Empire, is not an easy task. There are a lot of aspects to consider and an almost equal number of factors affecting them. In addition, the possible sources of information used to be incomplete and biased. Although methodology for conducting this kind of studies has evolved through time, allowing us to extract and to interpret the data in a better way, some aspects remain still obscure. [Contrib Sci 11:49-58 (2015)]

La revisió d’anteriors treballs sobre Jeroni Pujades ens permet en aquesta ocasió determinar amb un major nivell de certesa els seus mètodes i els seus principis com a historiador. El patriotisme és una característica essencial de la seva obra que en el camp epigràfic resulta nogensmenys d’una gran fiabilitat per a una part important de les inscripcions de Catalunya conegudes en el segle xvii. Abstract The review of previous works about Jeroni Pujades allows us on this occasion to determine his methods and principles as a historian with a greater degree of certainty. Patriotism is an essential characteristic of his work that is nevertheless, in the epigraphic field, extremely reliable in regard to an important part of the inscriptions from Catalonia known in the 17th century.