Marianne Shapiro (née Goldner) was born on April 14,1940, in Budapest (Hungary), and immigrated to the United States at the age of 3. She attended New York public schools in Manhattan, including the High School of Music and Art, and graduated from Barnard College. She was a Fulbright student at the Universities of Rome and Florence and received graduate degrees from Harvard and Columbia University.

Besides her extensive published scholarship in medieval, Renaissance, and comparative literature, Marianne Shapiro was an accomplished classical pianist and linguist (French, Italian, Latin, Old Provençal, German, Russian) and had a detailed knowledge of art history, particularly the European Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Marianne Shapiro died on June 3, 2003, in Manchester, Vermont.

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