Professor Emeritus Ricardo Quinones
Book-signing at Huntley: April 8

Ricardo Quinones, CMC's Josephine Olps Weeks Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature, invites you to join him as he reads from and discusses his newest book, Erasmus and Voltaire: Why They Still Matter, at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 8 at Huntley Bookstore.
Quinones will be signing books during the reception immediately following his presentation.
"Cultural history, comparative literature, historical typology and intellectual history all in one, Erasmus and Voltaire is Ricardo J Quinones's summaan impassioned celebration of two literary giants. In a series of powerful and close readings of Erasmus and Voltaire, Quinones reflects on the modern condition with penetrating ancillary commentaries that range from Shakespeare to Thomas Mann. Writing with the urgency and fervor of a pamphleteer, the author calls for a restoration of the courage, benevolence, imagination, gradualism, sanity, and ultimate illumination that we discover in his two subjects. This is a book that should be read by all literary scholars, historians, philosophersand statesmen!" Paul Barolsky, Art History, University of Virginia