Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics: From Ancient to Modern Times

book: Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics

From Ancient to Modern Times

Edited by: Francesca Romana Berno and Giuseppe La Bua
Funded by: Patrum Lumen Sustine-Stiftung (PLuS)

Volume 4 in the series CICERO

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748703

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Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling class over the centuries. Joining up with recent studies on the reception of Cicero, this volume approaches the figure of Cicero from a ‘biographical’, more than ‘philological’, perspective and considers the multiple ways by which different ages reacted to Cicero and created their ‘Ciceros’. From Cicero’s lifetime to our times, it focuses on how the image of Cicero was revisited and reworked by intellectuals and men of culture, who eulogized his outstanding oratorical and political virtues but, not rarely, questioned the role he had in Roman politics and society. An international group of scholars elaborates on the figure of Cicero, shedding fresh light on his reception in late antiquity, Humanism and Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern centuries. Historians, literary scholars and philosophers, as well as graduate students, will certainly profit from this volume, which contributes enormously to our understanding of the influence of Cicero on Western culture over the times.

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Francesca Romana Berno and Giuseppe La Bua, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
SECTION I: Portraying (and Defending) Himself
Cicero Portraying Cicero Robert A. Kaster Open Access Download PDF	1
Mihi cane et populo: Cicerone e l’autorappresentazione del successo oratorio. La questione del consenso popolare (Cic. Brut. 183–200) Alfredo Casamento Open Access Download PDF	13
A Ciceronian exemplum: Cicero’s Self-Portrait as Provincial Governor through his Letters Alejandro Díaz Fernández Open Access Download PDF	33
Cicerone esule: dall’autorappresentazione all’esemplarità letteraria (da Livio a Petrarca e Ortensio Lando) Rita Degl’Innocenti Pierini Open Access Download PDF	61
The Difficult Defense of Cicero’s Goodness in Institutio oratoria 12.1 Rosalie Stoner Open Access Download PDF	83
SECTION II: Cicero’s Exemplarity
Homo novus and nobilis: Cicero and the formation of the ‘modern’ aristocracy Giuseppe La Bua Open Access Download PDF	103
Cicero at the Symposium XII Sapientum Thomas J. Keeline Open Access Download PDF	119
Iconografía de Cicerón en manuscritos: Un testimonio de Recepción clásica Cristina Martín Puente Open Access Download PDF	143
Il «santissimo» Cicerone. La Quaestura di Sebastiano Corradi (1555) nella tradizione biografica sull’Arpinate Fabio Gatti Open Access Download PDF	169
Tully the Naïve: John Adams on Cicero Joanna Kenty Open Access Download PDF	195
Law & Orator: Depicting Cicero through Modern Mystery Fiction Kathryn H. Stutz Open Access Download PDF	211
SECTION III: The Portrait of the Ideal Orator
The reception of Cicero’s speeches in the early empire Catherine E. W. Steel Open Access Download PDF	233
Quintilian on Cicero’s Deliberative Oratory Henriette van der Blom Open Access Download PDF	247
Quousque tandem: The Reception of a Catchphrase Andrew J. Sillett Open Access Download PDF	267
Da iocosus a consularis scurra. Rappresentazioni del Cicerone umorista Barbara Del Giovane Open Access Download PDF	283
Reperforming Cicero’s Voice: Constructions and Negotiations of his vox publica Leanne Jansen, Christoph Pieper and Bram van der Velden Open Access Download PDF	313
SECTION IV: Cicero in Politics
Montesquieu on Cicero. Historiographical, political, and philosophical dimensions of a modern portrait Igor Moraes Santos Open Access Download PDF	341
Cicero in the Shadow of the Bastille Francesca Romana Berno Open Access Download PDF	369
Cicéron face aux dictateurs, 1920–1945 Philippe Rousselot Open Access Download PDF	391
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	429
Index locorum Open Access Download PDF	477
General Index Open Access Download PDF	483

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Latin Literature, Reception Studies, History of Politics, History of Culture
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 487
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 19
- Tables: 4
Keywords: Cicero; oratory; rhetoric

eBook

Published: February 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110748703

Hardcover

Published: March 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110748420