Paul F. Grendler (born: 24 May 1936) is an American historian of the Italian Renaissance.
He was born on May 24, 1936 in Armstrong, Iowa.
His grandparents were Polish American immigrants.
He studied at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He also attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Oberlin College.
He received a BA degree with a major in history from Oberlin College in 1959 and his MA degree in sixteenth-century French history in 1962 from the University of Wisconsin.
He worked as a lecturer of history at the University of Pittsburgh from 1963 to 1964.
He is currently a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.
He has received the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association.
He has received the Roland H. Bainton Prize.
He received the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.
In 2014 he received the Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei.
He is the author of a number of notable books: