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, Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics: From Ancient to Modern Times [Berno & La Bua 2022] Volume 4 in the series CICERO (funded by Patrum Lumen Sustine-Stiftung (PLuS)
Place edition: Berlin, Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 13-32
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Re-examining a brilliant passage from the dialogue Brutus (sections 183–200), 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. [editor].
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, Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics: From Ancient to Modern Times [Berno & La Bua 2022] Volume 4 in the series CICERO (funded by Patrum Lumen Sustine-Stiftung (PLuS)
Place edition: Berlin, Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 13-32
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Re-examining a brilliant passage from the dialogue Brutus (sections 183–200), 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. [editor].
Works:
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-004/pdf
Author initials: Casamento 2022
