Nicholas Mann (academic)
Colin Nicholas Jocelyn Mann, CBE, FBA (usually Nicholas or Nico Mann) (born 24 October 1942) is a scholar of Italian humanism, and especially of Petrarch. He was director of the Warburg Institute from 1990 to 2001. He is now an emeritus professor in the University of London. Early life and education Mann was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He read modern languages and literature at the University of Cambridge and completed his PhD there in 1965. Career Following his formal education, Mann was a fellow at Clare College from 1965 to 1967. In 1967 he took up a lectureship at the University of Warwick, where he remained until 1972. In 1972 he went to Oxford, where he became a visiting fellow at All Souls in that year, and subsequently a fellow and tutor at Pembroke from 1973. While at Pembroke, Mann took on various roles, including the role as Dean of Graduate Students, and latterly, in the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, the position of Chairman of the Council. In 1990, Mann was appointed Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition in the University of London. Mann's years at the Warburg involved him deeply