Usually known as Nicholas or Nico Mann
Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1942
Read modern languages and literature at King's College, Cambridge, and completed his PhD there in 1965
1965-1967 - Fellow at Clare College
In 1967 he took up a lectureship at the University of Warwick
In 1972 he went to Oxford, where he became a visiting fellow at All Souls in that year, and subsequently a Fellow and tutor at Pembroke from 1973
In 1990 he was appointed Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition in the University of London
In 2007 he retired and was awarded an emeritus professorship in Renaissance studies in the University