Lauro Martines Born: 22-Nov-1927 Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Social World of the Florentine Humanists Military service: US Army (1945-47) Wife: Ruth E. Wray (m. 1950, div. 1954) Wife: Julia O'Faolain (novelist, m. 1957, one son) Son: Lucien Christopher
University: AB, Drake University (1950) University: PhD, Harvard University (1960) Assistant Professor: History, Reed College (1958-62) Professor: European History, University of California at Los Angeles (1966-92)
American Historical Association Mediaeval Academy of America
Renaissance Society of America
Guggenheim Fellowship 1964
Author of books:
The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460 (1963, history) Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence (1968, history) Society and History in English Renaissance Verse (1985, criticism) Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy (1989, history) Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context (1994, collection) Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance (2001, history) April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici (2003, history) Loredana: A Venetian Tale (2005, novel) Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence (2006, biography) Furies: War in Europe, 1450-1700 (2013, history)
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