Romance and History in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata
Visiting Lecturer in the Chair of Italian Culture
David Quint, Yale University
Sponsors: Department of Italian Studies
David Quint is Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He will join us for two weeks from October 29th to November 9th, as Lecturer in the Chair of Italian Culture.
Professor Quint is the author of Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature (1983); Epic and Empire (1993); Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy (1998) and Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times:A New Reading of Don Quijote (2005). He has translated The Stanze of Poliziano (1978) and Ariosto's Cinque Canti (1996). He has published essays on Virgil, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Bruni, Castiglione, Flaubert, and Cervantes. He is the co-editor of Renaissance Theory/ Renaissance Texts (1986).
Thursday, November 1, 2007
5:00 PM
160 Dwinelle
