Nicolai Rubinstein, FBA, FRHistS (13 July 1911 – 19 August 2002) was a German-born historian of Renaissance Italy who lived in England from 1939.
Rubinstein was born on 13 July 1911 in Berlin, Germany, to Latvian and Hungarian[1] Jewish parents.
[2] He studied at the University of Berlin and moved to Florence in Italy in the 1930s, where he was an assistant to Nicola Ottokar.
[3] As The Guardian wrote in its obituary of him, Rubinstein was "one of the 20th century's most eminent scholars of renaissance Italy".
He was the general editor of the Letters of Lorenzo de' Medici and personally edited volumes 3 and 4 in the series.