John Rigby Hale

Sir John Rigby Hale (born September 17, 1923 in Ashford (Kent) , † August 12, 1999 ) was a British historian specializing in the Renaissance .

Hale studied at Oxford University (Jesus College) with a bachelor's degree in 1948 and a master's degree in 1953 and 1948/49 at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University . He was a tutor in modern history at Jesus College and a fellow of Jesus College from 1949 to 1964. He was then Professor of History at the University of Warwick and then Professor of Italian History at University College London and headed the Italy Department from 1970 until his retirement in 1988.

He was visiting professor at Cornell University and the University of California , among others . From 1973 to 1980 he was a trustee of the National Gallery in London. In 1984 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . He had been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1977 .

In 1992 he lost his language skills after a stroke, about which his wife, the journalist Sheila Hale, wrote a book The man who lost his language .

Fonts

• Napoleon: the Story of his Life , London, Faber and Faber, 1954.
• England and the Italian Renaissance: the Growth of Interest in its History and Art , London, Faber and Faber, 1954, 4th edition Oxford, Blackwell, 2005.
• Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy , London, English Universities Press, 1961.
• The Art of War and Renaissance England , Washington, Folger Shakespeare Library, 1961.
• Renaissance exploration , New York, WW Norton, 1968.
• Renaissance Europe, 1480–1520 , London: Collins, 1971.
• Italian Renaissance Painting from Masaccio to Titian , New York: Dutton, 1977.
• Florence and the Medici: the Pattern of Control , London, Thames and Hudson, 1977.
• Renaissance Fortification: Art or Engineering? , London, Thames and Hudson, 1977.
• War and Society in Renaissance Europe , Leicester, Fontana Paperbacks, 1985.
• Artists and warfare in the Renaissance , Yale University Press, 1990.
• The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance , New York: Scribner 1995
• Editor The Evolution of British Historiography: from Bacon to Namier . London, Melbourne, Macmillan, 1967
• Editor with JRL Highfield, B. Smalley Europe in the Late Middle Ages , Northwestern University Press, 1965.
• Published by Renaissance Venice , Faber and Faber 1973
• Published by A concise encyclopaedia of the Renaissance , Oxford UP 1981
• Published by The Thames and Hudson Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance , New York, Thames and Hudson 1981
• Published by Renaissance War Studies , London, Hambledon 1983
• International relations in the West: diplomacy and war , in Potter, Hay The Renaissance 1493-1520 , The New Cambridge Modern History , Volume 1, 1953, and Armies, Navies and the Art of War in Volume 2 (The Reformation) and Volume 3 (Counter-reformation)

He also published translations by Niccolò Machiavelli (including his Mandragola).

literature

• Michael Mallett: Obituary in The Independent , August 19, 1999

Web links

• Obituary at the University of Warwick