“Buoni e cattivi esempi”. Cicerone, Cesare e l’ombra di Silla

Author: Bianco, Maurizio Massimo
Title: “Buoni e cattivi esempi”. Cicerone, Cesare e l’ombra di Silla
Review/Collection: "Maia", NS 73, 1
Place edition: Brescia
Editor: Morcelliana
Year edition: 2021
Pages: 22-34
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [Bianco, Maurizio Massimo] [Abstract] The exemplum, one of the tools of persuasion indicated by ancient rhetoric, is used by Cicero in Caesarian Orations with a careful strategy: the exemplery modeling of Caesar allows to define the boundaries of the correct management of res publica. Therefore, in the Pro Marcello Caesar is already presented as a "visible" exemplum, while in the following Pro Ligario the paradigm of Sulla (i.e. that of a dictator guided by crudelitas) becomes effective in admonishing Caesar from a possible degeneration of power.
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Link: https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/4915954
Author initials: Bianco 2021