Education Princeton University (1954) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Giovanni and Lusanna, Two memoirs of Renaissa, Florence - the Golden Age - 113, The civic world of early Ren, Living on the Edge in Leonardo | ||
Gene Adam Brucker (born October 15, 1924 in Cropsey, Illinois) is an American historian and the Shepard Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Brucker studied at Oxford and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1954. He was immediately appointed to the faculty at Berkeley. He received several academic awards, including the Rhodes Scholarship, Fulbright Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. In 1979, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Brucker has focused and written specifically on Florence during the Renaissance. His research on Florentine history has pursued new insights into the period. Among his works include "Renaissance Florence" (1983), "Florence: the Golden Age" (1998), and "Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence: Selected Essays."