Author: Del Giovane, Barbara
Title: Marc-Antoine Muret and his Lectures on Cicero’s De officiis
Review/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Velden, Bram van der ed.), Reading Cicero’s Final Years Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century, Boston Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, 300 p.
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 197-220
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Marc-Antoine Muret made heavy use of Cicero’s De officiis while teaching at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, as Barbara Del Giovane expounds. She claims that Muret saw a cornerstone of Cicero’s views as of great importance for his own times: the idea that moral philosophy is indispensable for eloquence to function as a political tool, and that every citizen should feel compelled to contribute to the community. In his reading of Cicero, Muret sees close similarities between the political upheaval in the last days of the Roman Republic and the turmoil in the times of the Counter-Reformation. For that reason, De officiis—together with selected works of Aristotle and Plato— is made into a didactic tool to form Muret’s students into good Christians, dicendi periti. [Pieper and Velden 2020, xii]
Works:
Link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110716313-013/pdf
Author initials: Del Giovane 2020
Title: Marc-Antoine Muret and his Lectures on Cicero’s De officiis
Review/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Velden, Bram van der ed.), Reading Cicero’s Final Years Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century, Boston Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, 300 p.
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 197-220
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Marc-Antoine Muret made heavy use of Cicero’s De officiis while teaching at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, as Barbara Del Giovane expounds. She claims that Muret saw a cornerstone of Cicero’s views as of great importance for his own times: the idea that moral philosophy is indispensable for eloquence to function as a political tool, and that every citizen should feel compelled to contribute to the community. In his reading of Cicero, Muret sees close similarities between the political upheaval in the last days of the Roman Republic and the turmoil in the times of the Counter-Reformation. For that reason, De officiis—together with selected works of Aristotle and Plato— is made into a didactic tool to form Muret’s students into good Christians, dicendi periti. [Pieper and Velden 2020, xii]
Works:
Link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110716313-013/pdf
Author initials: Del Giovane 2020
