Da iocosus a consularis scurra. Rappresentazioni del Cicerone umorista

Autore: Del Giovane, Barbara
Titolo: Da iocosus a consularis scurra. Rappresentazioni del Cicerone umorista
Rivista/Miscellanea: 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]
Luogo edizione: Berlin
Editore: De Gruyter
Anno edizione: 2022
Pagine: 283-312
Parole chiave: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Descrizione: Barbara Del Giovane analyzes a minor but interesting aspect of Cicero’s reception, i. e., the portrait of Cicero as a humourist. Starting from a re-examination of the ancient literary judgments on Cicero as a master of irony, it points to the commonly perceived absence of moderation in Cicero’s use of jests and verbal jokes and observes that later receptions tended to focus on the opposition between the ideal of wit declared by Cicero in his works and the irony displayed outside theoretical and ‘programmatical’ contexts of his rhetorical corpus. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xix]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-017/pdf
Sigla autore: Del Giovane 2022