This article contains a concise biographical timeline for Roberto Weiss (1906-1969). He was an Italian-British scholar and historian who specialized in the fields of Italian-English cultural contacts during the period of the Renaissance, and of Renaissance humanism. He was a pioneer in the study of early humanism.
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1906 – He is born in Milan, Italy.
1932-1933 – He works in the Department of Western Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library.
1934 – He obtains his D.Phil from Oxford. He wins the Charles Oldham prize. He is naturalized British.
1936 – He marries Eve Cecil.
1938-1969 – He teaches at University College, London.
1941 – He publishes Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century.
1942-1945 – He serves a non-combative role in the British Royal Artillery.
1947 – He publishes The Dawn of Humanism in Italy.
1958 – He publishes Un umanista veneziano: Papa Paulo II.
1961 – He publishes The Medals of Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484).
1969 – He dies in Reading, Berkshire. His The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity is published posthumously.
1977 – His Medieval and Humanist Greek : collected essays is published posthumously.
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References;
1 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Weiss
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