Author: Degl’Innocenti Pierini, Rita
Title: Cicerone esule: dall’autorappresentazione all’esemplarità letteraria (da Livio a Petrarca e Ortensio Lando)
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 61-82
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Cicero’s paradigmatic experience as exiled, a privileged target of criticism in later receptions, elicits further reflections on his strategy of self-fashioning. The Rita Degl’Innocenti Pierini points to Cicero’s negative, non-philosophical attitude towards exile, defined in tragic terms as calamitas. Refusing consolations from Atticus and his family and, at the same time, playing up his dolor, Cicero portrayed himself as a ‘tragic hero’, afflicted with physical and mental illness and not capable of overcoming adversity. This impacted unavoidably on later receptions of Cicero’s exile. From Livius (Camillus’ exile is probably modeled on Cicero’s self-portrait as exul) and declamatory texts (the spurious Pridie quam in exilium iret) to Petrarch and Ortensio Lando’s Cicero relegatus et Cicero revocatus, Cicero never achieved the status of exemplary exul. It might be tempting to say that Cicero himself was responsible for the flop of his strategy of self-justification. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xv]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-006/pdf
Author initials: Degl’Innocenti Pierini 2022
Title: Cicerone esule: dall’autorappresentazione all’esemplarità letteraria (da Livio a Petrarca e Ortensio Lando)
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 61-82
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Cicero’s paradigmatic experience as exiled, a privileged target of criticism in later receptions, elicits further reflections on his strategy of self-fashioning. The Rita Degl’Innocenti Pierini points to Cicero’s negative, non-philosophical attitude towards exile, defined in tragic terms as calamitas. Refusing consolations from Atticus and his family and, at the same time, playing up his dolor, Cicero portrayed himself as a ‘tragic hero’, afflicted with physical and mental illness and not capable of overcoming adversity. This impacted unavoidably on later receptions of Cicero’s exile. From Livius (Camillus’ exile is probably modeled on Cicero’s self-portrait as exul) and declamatory texts (the spurious Pridie quam in exilium iret) to Petrarch and Ortensio Lando’s Cicero relegatus et Cicero revocatus, Cicero never achieved the status of exemplary exul. It might be tempting to say that Cicero himself was responsible for the flop of his strategy of self-justification. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xv]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-006/pdf
Author initials: Degl’Innocenti Pierini 2022
