Author: Del Giovane, Barbara
Title: Da iocosus a consularis scurra. Rappresentazioni del Cicerone umorista
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: 283-312
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: 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
Author initials: Del Giovane 2022
Title: Da iocosus a consularis scurra. Rappresentazioni del Cicerone umorista
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: 283-312
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: 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
Author initials: Del Giovane 2022
