Peter William David MackFBA (16 April 1955 – 5 October 2023) was a British academic who was director ofThe Warburg Institute from 2010 to 2015.^[1][2] He succeededCharles Hope^[3] and was succeeded byDavid Freedberg.^[4] He was a specialist in the history ofrhetoric and was formerly professor of English at theUniversity of Warwick.

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

• 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)

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