The View From Kalamazoo

What a sad thing: David Pingree has died. I can’t describe how valuable his work has been to me. I had tried to get him invited here (as a plenarist), but I’m a minion and get no say, and I inquired of his program at Brown – and at that point they had recently stopped accepting applications due to the uncertainty and his retirement. I would have loved to work with the man on ancient and medieval astrological texts, loved to.

What a loss. He was unique, brilliant…his work was what really pulled me into my area of concentration, more than anything else. Really. ( have his Picatrix: The Latin Version sitting next to me, in fact.)