The Afterlife of Cicero
G Manuwald (Editor)
Series: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements
Published in association with: Institute of Classical Studies
Cicero was one of the most prolific and productive figures from ancient Rome, active as both a politician and a writer. As yet however modern scholarship does not do justice to the sheer range of his later influence. This volume publishes papers from a conference which aimed to enlarge the basis for the study of Cicero’s reception, by examining in detail new aspects of its variety. The conference was held in May 2015, and was jointly organized by the Institute of Classical Studies, the Warburg Institute, and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London.
The book presents twelve case studies on the reception of ‘Cicero the writer’ and ‘Cicero the man’, ranging from thirteenth-century Italy to nineteenth-century England, including colonial Latin America. Scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds discuss artistic and literary responses to Cicero as well as his exploitation in philosophical and political debates. Taken together, these studies illustrate how the special characteristics of the historical Cicero colour his reception: his afterlife is one of the most varied and wide-ranging of any classical author.
A Florentine Tullio: dual authorship and the politics of translation in Brunetto Latini’s Rettorica
Catherine M. Keen
Petrarch and the reading of Cicero’s De natura deorum in the ms. 552-2 of the Médiathèque du Grand Troyes
Laura Refe
Cicero as a communal civic model: Italian communes of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Carole Mabboux
Cicero at court: Martino Filetico’s Iocundissimae disputationes
Virginia Cox
Renascens ad superos Cicero: Ciceronian and anti-Ciceronian styles in the Italian Renaissance
Martin McLaughlin
Visibile parlare? Picturing Cicero in the Italian Renaissance L. B. T. Houghton
Cicero’s Caesarian orations in early modern Europe
David Marsh
Orator, sage, and patriot: Cicero in colonial Latin America
Andrew Laird
Cicero and historicism: controversies in Cicero’s reception in the eighteenth century
Matthew Fox
How to read Ciceronian Scepticism: Anthony Collins, Richard Bentley, and the Freethought debate in 1713
Katherine East
The Catiline conspiracy and the credibility of letters in French Revolutionary art
Nina L. Dubin
Framing Cicero’s Lives: production values and paratext in nineteenth-century biographies
Lynn Fotheringham
Paperback: 9781905670642 / 226 pages / 244mm x 170mm
G Manuwald (Editor)
Subject: Ancient Rome, Classical Studies
BISAC codes: FOR033000
Thema codes: NHC
Keywords: Catiline Conspiracy, Cicero, Ciceronian Oratory, Humanism, Italian Renaissance, Reception of Cicero
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