Peter Mack (academic) explained

Peter William David Mack (16 April 1955 – 5 October 2023) was a British academic who was director of The Warburg Institute from 2010 to 2015.^{[1] [2]} He succeeded Charles Hope^[3] and was succeeded by David Freedberg.^[4] He was a specialist in the history of rhetoric and was formerly professor of English at the University of Warwick.

Mack died in a traffic collision in France, on 5 October 2023, at the age of 68.^{[5] [6]}

Selected publications

• Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic (Leiden, 1993)
• Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2002)
• A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (Oxford, 2011)

Notes and References

1. News: Professor Peter Mack obituary . 17 October 2023 . The Times . 17 October 2023.
2. Web site: Professor Peter Mack appointed Director of Warburg Institute . warwick.ac.uk . 8 April 2017.
3. Web site: Charles Hope | The New York Review of Books . Nybooks.com . 8 April 2017.
4. Web site: Archived copy . 8 April 2017 . 2 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402160511/http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/fileadmin/images/Home/freedberg.pdf . dead .
5. News: Hadfield . Andrew . Peter Mack obituary . 13 October 2023 . The Guardian . 13 October 2023.
6. Web site: Professor Peter Mack FBA (1955–2023) . University of Warwick . 13 October 2023.