Author: Berno, Francesca Romana
Title: Il compromesso impossibile. Marco Celio fra vizi e virtù
Review/Collection: "Lexis", 31
Place edition: Amsterdam
Editor: Adolf M. Hakkert
Year edition: 2013
Pages: 321-335
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Prosopographie - Prosopografia - Prosopography, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [Berno, Francesca Romana] [Abstract] The Pro Caelio, with its digression about education, has generally been interpreted with attention to the teathrical pattern. In this paper I propose a new reading, linked to Catiline, with whom Caelius was involved, and to Cicero’s description of both. Caelius is presented as a young man once devoted to love affairs, but now completely absorbed by his poitical career, i.e. completely virtuous. Cicero sets in the past any possible vice of Caelius, and intentionally avoids the possibility to present him as a mix of vice and virtue: because this is Catiline’s condition, as Cicero describes him (§ 12).
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/5463083/Il_compromesso_impossibile_Marco_Celio_fra_vizi_e_virt%C3%B9?email_work_card=view-paper
Author initials: Berno 2013
Title: Il compromesso impossibile. Marco Celio fra vizi e virtù
Review/Collection: "Lexis", 31
Place edition: Amsterdam
Editor: Adolf M. Hakkert
Year edition: 2013
Pages: 321-335
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Prosopographie - Prosopografia - Prosopography, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [Berno, Francesca Romana] [Abstract] The Pro Caelio, with its digression about education, has generally been interpreted with attention to the teathrical pattern. In this paper I propose a new reading, linked to Catiline, with whom Caelius was involved, and to Cicero’s description of both. Caelius is presented as a young man once devoted to love affairs, but now completely absorbed by his poitical career, i.e. completely virtuous. Cicero sets in the past any possible vice of Caelius, and intentionally avoids the possibility to present him as a mix of vice and virtue: because this is Catiline’s condition, as Cicero describes him (§ 12).
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/5463083/Il_compromesso_impossibile_Marco_Celio_fra_vizi_e_virt%C3%B9?email_work_card=view-paper
Author initials: Berno 2013
