Author: Casamento, Alfredo
Title: « Mihi cane et populo »: Cicerone e l’autorappresentazione del successo oratorio. La questione del consenso popolare (Cic. Brut. 183–200)
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: 13-32
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Re-examining a brilliant passage from the dialogue Brutus (sections 183–200), the second contribution, Alfredo Casamento, focuses on Cicero’s self-presentation as the ideal orator and reconsiders the relevance of the audientium adprobatio to the creation of the ‘good man skilled in speaking’ (vir bonus dicendi peritus). Though admitting to the decadence of eloquence in current times, in the Brutus Cicero integrates the key issue of the popular consensus into his self-fashioning strategy. Good eloquence relies on public approbation. In treating such a delicate and controversial topic Cicero paves the way for future debates on the nature of eloquence and rhetoric, debates perceived as ‘Ciceronian’ by generations to come. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xiv]
Works:
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-004/pdf
Author initials: Casamento 2022
Title: « Mihi cane et populo »: Cicerone e l’autorappresentazione del successo oratorio. La questione del consenso popolare (Cic. Brut. 183–200)
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: 13-32
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Re-examining a brilliant passage from the dialogue Brutus (sections 183–200), the second contribution, Alfredo Casamento, focuses on Cicero’s self-presentation as the ideal orator and reconsiders the relevance of the audientium adprobatio to the creation of the ‘good man skilled in speaking’ (vir bonus dicendi peritus). Though admitting to the decadence of eloquence in current times, in the Brutus Cicero integrates the key issue of the popular consensus into his self-fashioning strategy. Good eloquence relies on public approbation. In treating such a delicate and controversial topic Cicero paves the way for future debates on the nature of eloquence and rhetoric, debates perceived as ‘Ciceronian’ by generations to come. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xiv]
Works:
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-004/pdf
Author initials: Casamento 2022
