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Professor

David Louis Quint

Yale University
Literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2008
Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Scholar of Renaissance literature in English, Italian, French and Spanish, its sources in Greek and Latin, and its influences to the present. Author of Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature (1983), Epic and Empire (1993), Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy (1998) and Cervantes' Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of Don Quijote (2003). Translator of the Stanze of Angelo Poliziano (1979) and the Cinque Canti of Ariosto (1996).
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