Author: Margiotta, Giovanni
Title: « Reading the Scholia Gronoviana: Ambiguity and Veiled Language in the Interpretation of Cicero’s Caesarian Orations »
Review/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Pausch, Dennis, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches. Contexts and Perspectives, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2023, 287 p. [Pieper & Pausch 2023]
Place edition: Leiden Boston
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2023
Pages: 243-266
Keywords: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Philologie - Filologia - Philology, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Giovanni Margiotta addresses the question of veiled speech in Cicero’s Caesarian Orations and how it is treated in the Scholia Gronoviana. Starting from a remark in the argumentum that others have interpreted the Pro Marcello as oratio figurata, Margiotta first sketches Quintilian’s theory of the term and his influence on later rhetorical handbooks before interpreting and contextualizing the scholiast’s remark. In a following step, the chapter addresses the remaining two Caesarian Orations and how they deal with Cicero’s rhetorical dissimulatio. In the case of Pro Ligario, the scholiast’s treatment of its irony is compared to Quintilian’s and Grillius’ assessment of the same issue. For the Pro rege Deiotaro the chapter discusses how the scholia deal with Cicero’s insinuatio with a reference to Vergil’s notorious liar Sinon. The chapter shows how the scholia, by labelling these strategies of dissimulatio, fulfil “a didactic purpose, providing students with illustrious models of manipulatory eloquence” (p. 259). [Pieper & Pausch 2023, 19]
Works:
Link: https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004516441/BP000011.pdf
Author initials: Margiotta 2023
Title: « Reading the Scholia Gronoviana: Ambiguity and Veiled Language in the Interpretation of Cicero’s Caesarian Orations »
Review/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Pausch, Dennis, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches. Contexts and Perspectives, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2023, 287 p. [Pieper & Pausch 2023]
Place edition: Leiden Boston
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2023
Pages: 243-266
Keywords: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Philologie - Filologia - Philology, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Giovanni Margiotta addresses the question of veiled speech in Cicero’s Caesarian Orations and how it is treated in the Scholia Gronoviana. Starting from a remark in the argumentum that others have interpreted the Pro Marcello as oratio figurata, Margiotta first sketches Quintilian’s theory of the term and his influence on later rhetorical handbooks before interpreting and contextualizing the scholiast’s remark. In a following step, the chapter addresses the remaining two Caesarian Orations and how they deal with Cicero’s rhetorical dissimulatio. In the case of Pro Ligario, the scholiast’s treatment of its irony is compared to Quintilian’s and Grillius’ assessment of the same issue. For the Pro rege Deiotaro the chapter discusses how the scholia deal with Cicero’s insinuatio with a reference to Vergil’s notorious liar Sinon. The chapter shows how the scholia, by labelling these strategies of dissimulatio, fulfil “a didactic purpose, providing students with illustrious models of manipulatory eloquence” (p. 259). [Pieper & Pausch 2023, 19]
Works:
Link: https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004516441/BP000011.pdf
Author initials: Margiotta 2023
