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A native New Yorker, Margaret L. King attended the Bronx High School of
Science before proceeding to Sarah Lawrence College (BA, 1967) and Stanford
University (MA, 1968; Ph.D. 1972). At Brooklyn College, CUNY, since 1972,
and the Graduate Center since 1987, she has taught courses in the Italian
Renaissance, the history of childhood, Renaissance women, the humanist
tradition, early modern historiography, and ancient Greece and Rome.
She has
published four books on different aspects of the culture of Renaissance
Italy, the most recent being The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello
(Chicago, 1994). Executive Director of the Renaissance Society of America
from 1987 through 1995, and co-editor of Renaissance Quarterly from
1984-1988, she expects to resume the role of RQ co-editor in July 1997.
She
is currently a member of the editorial board for the Encyclopedia of the
Renaissance, to be published by Scribner's, and is working simultaneously on
a textbook project and a monograph on mothers in history.
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