Portraying Cicero in literature, culture, and politics : from ancient to modern times / edited by Francesca Romana Berno, Giuseppe La Bua.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berno, Francesca Romana, editor.

La Bua, Giuseppe, editor.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 486 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]

Language Note:

In English and Italian.

Summary:

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.-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction

Section I : Portraying (and defending) himself

Cicero portraying Cicero / Robert A. Kaster

Mihi cane et populo : Cicerone e l'autorappresentazione del successo oratorio : La questione del consenso popolare (Cic. Brut. 183-200) / Alfredo Casamento

A Ciceronian exemplum : Cicero's self-portrait as provincial governor through his letters / Alejandro Díaz Fernández

Cicerone esule : dall'autorappresentazione all'esemplarità letteraria (da Livio a Petrarca e Ortensio Lando) / Rita Degl'Innocenti Pierini

The difficult defense of Cicero's goodness in Institutio oratoria 12.1 / Rosalie Stoner

Section II : Cicero's exemplarity

Homo novus and nobilis : Cicero and the formation of the 'modern' aristocracy / Giuseppe La Bua

Cicero at the Symposium XII Sapientum / Thomas J. Keeline

Iconografía de Cicerón en manuscritos : Un testimonio de recepción clásica / Cristina Martín Puente

Il santissimo Cicerone : La Quaestura di Sebastiano Corradi (1555) nella tradizione biografica sull'Arpinate / Fabio Gatti

Tully the Naïve : John Adams on Cicero / Joanna Kenty

Law & orator : Depicting Cicero through modern mystery fiction / Kathryn H. Stutz

Section III : The portrait of the ideal orator

The reception of Cicero's speeches in the early empire / Catherine E.W. Steel

Quintilian on Cicero's deliberative oratory / Henriette van der Blom

Quousque tandem : The reception of a catchphrase / Andrew J. Sillettt

Da iocosus a consularis scurra : Rappresentazioni del Cicerone umorista / Barbara Del Giovane

Reperforming Cicero's voice : Constructions and negotiations of his vox publica / Leanne Jansen, Christoph Pieper, and Bram van der Velden

Section IV : Cicero in politics

Montesquieu on Cicero : Historiographical, political, and philosophical dimensions of a modern portrait / Igor Moraes Santos

Cicero in the shadow of the Bastille / Francesca Romana Berno

Cicéron face aux dictateurs, 1920-1945 / Philippe Rousselot.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.