Patricia Hochschild Labalme

Hochschild was born in New York City, the daughter of industrialist Walter Hochschild and Kathrin Samstag Hochschild.[1][2] Her grandfather was Berthold Hochschild, and her uncle as Harold K. Hochschild.[3] She graduated from the Brearley School in 1944, and from Bryn Mawr College in 1948. At Harvard University, she earned a master's degree in 1950 and a PhD in 1958.[4] Her dissertation, Bernardo Giustiniani; a Venetian of the Quattrocento, won the Caroline Wilby Prize.[5]

Labalme taught history at Wellesley College from 1952 to 1959, and at Barnard College from 1961 to 1977.[6] She was an adjunct professor at Hunter College in 1979, and at New York University from 1980 to 1982 and from 1986 to 1987.[5] Labalme's publications included a book based on her dissertation, Bernardo Giustiniani, a Venetian of the Quattrocento (1969).[7] She edited Beyond their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past (1980),[8] a collection of essays, and A Century Recalled: Essays in Honor of Bryn Mawr College (1987).[9] She co-edited Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo (2008) with Laura Sanguineti White.[10]

Labalme was associate director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1982 to 1988,[11] and held other positions in leadership at the Institute until 1997. She conducted oral history interviews for the Institute, including interviews with diplomat George F. Kennan,[12] and historians Harry Woolf,[13] John Huxtable Elliott,[14] and Marshall Clagett.[15] She was executive director of the Renaissance Society of America.[5]

Labalme served as a trustee of the Brearley School from 1978 to 1982, and a trustee of the American Academy in Rome from 1979 to 1999. She was the first female trustee of the Lawrenceville School from 1985 to 1996. As a trustee of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation,[16] she created the Venetian Research Program in 1977, to provide grants from British and American scholars studying Venice. She helped found the Friends of the Marciana Library.[5] In 1987, Labalme received the Frances Riker Davis Award from the Brearley School.[17]

• "Identification and translation of a letter of Guarino Guarini of Verona" (article, 1955)[18]
• Bernardo Giustiniani, a Venetian of the Quattrocento (1969)[7]
• Beyond their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past (1980, edited collection)[8]
• Sodomy and Venetian justice in the Renaissance (1984)[19]
• A Century Recalled: Essays in Honor of Bryn Mawr College (1987)[9]
• No man but an angel: Early efforts to canonize Lorenzo Giustiniani (1381-1456) (1993)[20]
• Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo (2008, co-edited with Laura Sanguineti White)[10]

In 1958,[21] Patricia Hochschild married industrial designer and New York Public Library executive George Labalme Jr.[22][23] They had four children together; her daughter Victoria Labalme is an actress and speaker, married to puppeteer Frank Oz. She died from pancreatic cancer in 2002, aged 75 years, in New York City.[24][25]

A posthumous collection of her essays was published as Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice. (2010).[26] Her estate contributed book collections to libraries at Seton Hall University, the American Academy in Rome, and Kenyon College.[27] The Renaissance Society of America maintains the Patricia H. Labalme Memorial Fund for Venetian Studies, named in her memory.[28]