Paul F. Grendler (born 24 May 1936) is an American historian of the Italian Renaissance.
Biography
He was born on May 24, 1936, in Armstrong, Iowa.
His grandparents were Polish American immigrants.
Education
He studied at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He also attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Oberlin College.
He received a BA degree with a major in history from Oberlin College in 1959 and his MA degree in sixteenth-century French history in 1962 from the University of Wisconsin.
Career
He worked as a lecturer of history at the University of Pittsburgh from 1963 to 1964.
He is currently a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.
Awards and honours
He has received the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association.
He has received the Roland H. Bainton Prize.
He received the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.
In 2014 he received the Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei.
Bibliography
He is the author of a number of notable books:
The Humanities in Jesuit Schools 1548–1773 The Expulsion and Return of the Jesuits to Venice, 1606-57: A Test of Loyalty between the Papacy and the Jesuits Policy Dialogue: The Rise and Decline of Catholic Education, 1500-Present The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press The Jesuits and Italian Universities, 1548-1773 Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600
See also
Italian Renaissance Biblioteca Marciana
References
External links
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