Robert B. Litchfield

Robert B. Litchfield, of Westport, Mass.; Feb. 9. He was professor of history emeritus at Brown, where he taught from 1968 until his retirement in 2003. Before Brown, he taught at Dartmouth College. He graduated from Harvard and earned a PhD from Princeton. He published Emergence of a Bureaucracy: The Florentine Patricians, 1530-1790, which won the American Historical Association’s Marraro Prize in 1987. He also translated works of Italian historians. After participating in a project for comparative census analysis, he published an e-book, Florence Ducal Capital 1530-1630, in 2004, which detailed the city’s changing urban geography. He is survived by his husband, W. Gardner Chace.