Margaret L. King (born 1947)[1] is an American historian of the Italian Renaissance and a professor emerita of history at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
She went to Stanford University for graduate study in history, earning a master's degree in 1968 and completing her Ph.D. in 1972.
[3] She became an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton in 1969, and moved to Brooklyn College in 1972.
[3] King received the 1986 Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association for the best book in Italian history for her first book, Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance.
[3] She was the 2018 recipient of the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award of the Renaissance Society of America.