David Quint
Biographic Data
| ID | 691410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Quint |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Quint |
| SIGNATURE | QUINT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0323-0402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Heroism and Loot in the Iliad
The Iliad takes for granted the material motives of war and its heroes’ pursuit of booty, exchangeable wealth as well as tokens of honor. The poem nonetheless prefers that the hero fight for epic praise, and it shows that a warrior’s acquisitiveness may get in the way of his glory. It explores the issue in a subplot built around the actions of Diomedes in books 5–6 and 10–11: the hero obtains horses and armor in alternation, and his desire for sp…
Epic and Empire
How the Classics Made Shakespeare
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Virgil's Double Cross
Palaces of Enchantment
Palaces of Enchantment: the 1516 Orlando Furioso David Quint This essay re-examines the relationship of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516) to the predecessor poem it continues and completes, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1482–3; 1495). It focuses on the enchanter Atlante, who, under the name of Atalante, already stood in for the poet Boiardo in the Innamorato.1 Both Atalante and Boiardo shield the Innamorato’s Carolingian heroes from t…
Inside Paradise Lost
Inside “Paradise Lost” opens up new readings and ways of reading John Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. This book demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. Looking at…
Milton’s Book of Numbers
This chapter shows how book 1 of Paradise Lost metaphorically depicts the role of the devil in raising the rebel angels out of their “bottomless perdition,” an act of poetic creation analogous to the divine creation of the universe described in the invocation—“how the heavens and earth/Rose out of chaos.” The chief devils described in the catalog that occupies the center of book 1 and organizes its poetic figures and symbolic geography—Carthage, …
Milton, Waller, and the Fate of Eden
Milton shapes his depiction of Eden in Paradise Lost as a response to Edmund Waller’s On St. James’s Park, a celebrated poem of the Restoration. Waller’s description of the royal park, newly improved by Charles II—a a new Eden, a sacred, oracular grove next to the temple-like Westminster Abbey and the capitol-like Whitehall—is revisited in Milton’s epic. God expels Adam and Eve from Eden and subsequently washes away the garden during the Flood to…
The Modern Copy
Inside "Paradise Lost"
Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint’s comprehensive study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and e…
Inside Paradise Lost
Aeacidae Pyrrhi
Epic and Empire
Réformeof the sixteenth century, and would tell us much about the transition from the feudal to the modern state.This raises a bigger question: must the modern state be examined through its new institutions, as Potter seems to imply, or through the message and the ideology that lay behind those institutions?The answer lies probably somewhere in the middle, as administrative history cannot be totally separated from political history
Petrarch, Ronsard, and the Seven Year Itch
Petrarch, Ronsard, and the Seven Year Itch David Quint (bio) The thirtieth poem of Petrarch's Canzoniere, "Giovene donna sotto un verde lauro," is the first sestina and also the first anniversary poem of the lyric sequence. The seventh year has arrived, Petrarch declares, since he first met and fell in love with Laura on Good Friday, April 6, 1327: "che s'al contar non erro, oggi à sett'anni / che sospirando vo di riva in riva" (RVF 30.28-29).1 R…
Milton’s book of numbers
The Tragedy of Nobility on the Seventeenth-Century Stage
David Quint is George M. Bodman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His most recent books are Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy: Ethical and Political Themes in the “Essais” (1998) and Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of “Don Quijote” (2003). His essays “A Reconsideration of Montaigne's Des Cannibales” and “Narrative Interlace and Narrative Genres in Don Quijote and the Orlando Furioso” appeared in…
Fear of Falling
This essay discloses a hitherto-undetected network of allusion and motif in Paradise Lost (1667). Satan falls through Chaos like Icarus in book 2, and like Phaethon in book 6. In book 6 the Son rides triumphantly in the Chariot of Paternal Deity as a good, successful Phaethon. Both myths of falling in a poem about the Fall involve Milton (1608-74) in a polemic with Lucretius, the classical poet of a godless, Epicurean universe that is ever fallin…
L’Éloge du Prince
S’interrogeant sur une pratique à la fois littéraire et politique, les auteurs de cet ouvrage ont envisagé les différentes facettes de l’éloge adressé à un Prince, qu’il s’agisse d’un empereur romain ou d’un roi de France. Sont ainsi proposées, pour une période qui va de l’Antiquité au temps des Lumières, des réflexions sur les aspects théoriques du genre épidictique et ses textes fondateurs, ainsi que des synthèses sur le fonctionnement de l’élo…
Expectation and Prematurity in Milton's "Nativity Ode"
Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance
Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy
Cinque Canti. Five Cantos
Duelling and Civility in Sixteenth Century Italy
Two. Repetition and Ideology in the Aeneid
Political Allegory in the Gerusalemme Liberata
In 1553, six years before Tasso first began to sketch the poem that was to become the Gerusalemme liberata, the Catholic monarchs Philip II and Mary Tudor acceded to the throne of England, after the Protestant reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. The event was celebrated in an encomiastic oration, De restituta in Anglia religione ("On the restoration of religion in England"), by the minor Modenese humanist, Antonio Fiordibello. In one passage Fior…
Humanism and Modernity
The spread of humanism in fifteenth-century Italy was extraordinarily rapid and complete, so much so that it could instill an uncritical complacency in its adherents and practitioners. By midcentury, humanist Latin had become the language of the Roman Curia, and it soon became the language of peninsular diplomacy. Humanists filled positions in the bureaucracies of princely courts and city-republics, and they took jobs as teachers and secretaries …
The Figure of Atlante
Voices of Resistance
Research Article| July 01 1989 Voices of Resistance: The Epic Curse and Camões's Adamastor David Quint David Quint Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1989) 27: 111–141. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928486 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citat…
Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature
The Figure of Atlante
Rabelais
Alexander the Pig
In one satirical scene of Henry V, Shakespeare criticizes a tradition of humanist ideas about the writing and reading of history. He specifically questions the assumption that the past possesses an inherently normative authority for the present, that the function of history is to produce exemplary models for human behavior. At the same time, he challenges the claim of the historian to provide a fully objective account of past events, uncolored by…
The Stanze of Angelo Poliziano
Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature
catches the tone of this heroic boast better than flow of subjectless verbs. Quenched for Saxo's extinxi is both more accurate and more colorful than Hansen's flaccid rid; and retorted arts, strange as it sounds, does more justice to the loaded mutuis insidiis than counterplot. Often Elton preserves some of the Latinate muscle in phrase that Hansen (and Fisher in his translation) weakens. introduction's last section, The Shakespearean Transformat…
Humanism and Modernity
The spread of humanism in fifteenth-century Italy was extraordinarily rapid and complete, so much so that it could instill an uncritical complacency in its adherents and practitioners. By midcentury, humanist Latin had become the language of the Roman Curia, and it soon became the language of peninsular diplomacy. Humanists filled positions in the bureaucracies of princely courts and city-republics, and they took jobs as teachers and secretaries …
Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts
Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts
The editors of this book have brought together a collection of first-rate essays that display the range and fecundity of contemporary theory.--Ralph Flores, Philosophy and Literature
Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts
Language and Meaning in the Renaissance
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Voices of Resistance
Research Article| July 01 1989 Voices of Resistance: The Epic Curse and Camões's Adamastor David Quint David Quint Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1989) 27: 111–141. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928486 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citat…
Political Allegory in the Gerusalemme Liberata
In 1553, six years before Tasso first began to sketch the poem that was to become the Gerusalemme liberata, the Catholic monarchs Philip II and Mary Tudor acceded to the throne of England, after the Protestant reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. The event was celebrated in an encomiastic oration, De restituta in Anglia religione ("On the restoration of religion in England"), by the minor Modenese humanist, Antonio Fiordibello. In one passage Fior…
Two. Repetition and Ideology in the Aeneid
Duelling and Civility in Sixteenth Century Italy
Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy
Cinque Canti. Five Cantos
Expectation and Prematurity in Milton's "Nativity Ode"
Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance
L’Éloge du Prince
S’interrogeant sur une pratique à la fois littéraire et politique, les auteurs de cet ouvrage ont envisagé les différentes facettes de l’éloge adressé à un Prince, qu’il s’agisse d’un empereur romain ou d’un roi de France. Sont ainsi proposées, pour une période qui va de l’Antiquité au temps des Lumières, des réflexions sur les aspects théoriques du genre épidictique et ses textes fondateurs, ainsi que des synthèses sur le fonctionnement de l’élo…
Fear of Falling
This essay discloses a hitherto-undetected network of allusion and motif in Paradise Lost (1667). Satan falls through Chaos like Icarus in book 2, and like Phaethon in book 6. In book 6 the Son rides triumphantly in the Chariot of Paternal Deity as a good, successful Phaethon. Both myths of falling in a poem about the Fall involve Milton (1608-74) in a polemic with Lucretius, the classical poet of a godless, Epicurean universe that is ever fallin…
The Tragedy of Nobility on the Seventeenth-Century Stage
David Quint is George M. Bodman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His most recent books are Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy: Ethical and Political Themes in the “Essais” (1998) and Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of “Don Quijote” (2003). His essays “A Reconsideration of Montaigne's Des Cannibales” and “Narrative Interlace and Narrative Genres in Don Quijote and the Orlando Furioso” appeared in…
Milton’s book of numbers
Epic and Empire
Réformeof the sixteenth century, and would tell us much about the transition from the feudal to the modern state.This raises a bigger question: must the modern state be examined through its new institutions, as Potter seems to imply, or through the message and the ideology that lay behind those institutions?The answer lies probably somewhere in the middle, as administrative history cannot be totally separated from political history
Petrarch, Ronsard, and the Seven Year Itch
Petrarch, Ronsard, and the Seven Year Itch David Quint (bio) The thirtieth poem of Petrarch's Canzoniere, "Giovene donna sotto un verde lauro," is the first sestina and also the first anniversary poem of the lyric sequence. The seventh year has arrived, Petrarch declares, since he first met and fell in love with Laura on Good Friday, April 6, 1327: "che s'al contar non erro, oggi à sett'anni / che sospirando vo di riva in riva" (RVF 30.28-29).1 R…
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