John Rigby Hale
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Sir John Rigby Hale (September 17, 1923 - August 12, 1999) was a Renaissance historian and university professor from England.
Sir John Hale was a Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of Italian History at University College, London, where he was head of the Italian Department from 1970 until his retirement in 1988. His first position was as Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1949-1964. He taught at a number of other universities including Cornell and the University of California.
Sir Hale has written many books including England and the Italian Renaissance, Italian Renaissance Painting, Renaissance Europe 1480-1520, Florence and the Medici: The Pattern of Control, A Concise Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance. He is probably most popularly known for his last book, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (1993), an imaginative and sweeping survey.
[edit] External links
- "John Rigby Hale" in Proceedings of the British Academy, volume 111, 2002, ISBN 0197262597 pp. 531-552, full obituary.
- "Obituaries: Professor Sir John Hale", The Independent, Aug 19, 1999 by Michael Mallett
