Harm Pinkster, Latinist, 5 March 1942 – 14 December 2021
This is to communicate the sad news that Harm Pinkster passed away on 14 December.
Harm Pinkster, Latinist, 5 March 1942 – 14 December 2021
This is to communicate the sad news that Harm Pinkster passed away on 14 December.
Bruno Luiselli, professor emeritus of Latin literature at La Sapienza University, died on 2 June at the age of 87 years. A versatile academic, he was a leading authority in the field of romano-barbarian studies. He founded the Romanobarbarica review as well as the series Biblioteca di Cultura Romanobarbarica. His own output includes, among much else, Romanobarbarica. Scritti scelti, Florence 2017, and Storia culturale dei rapporti tra mondo romano e mondo germanico, Rome 1992.
Read the obituary in La Repubblica here.
SISMEL/Edizioni del Galuzzo publishes the Nuova Biblioteca di Cultura Romanobarbarica in his honour. Its editors are Proff. Antonella Bruzzone, Alessandro Fo, and Luigi Piacente. Information here.
On 3 September 2020, the distinguished scholar of Late Antiquity, and of Monastic Culture in particular, Philip Rousseau passed away. As a tribute to his work, here is a link to the full list of his publications.