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The Rhetoric and Humanism of Cicero and Its Impact on the Humanists of the Early Italian Renaissance

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1996
Abstract/Description:
Marcus Tullius Cicero exerted a major influence on rhetoric: intellectual writings, oratory, and education in the Early Italian Renaissance. Cicero's humanism expressed a fellowship with society and included justice, reasoning, moral and social duties to the community. It eventually replaced traditional learning and established a pattern of classical studies that was to continue for centuries. The Early Italian Renaissance was basically a cultural, literary and scholarly movement that represented an important and new phase in the study and interpretation of the history of classical antiquity and played a unique role in Western cultural history. This paper explores the extent to which contemporary authors have identified the similarities and differences between Cicero's humanism and the humanism of the Early Italian Renaissance. The author suggests areas requiring further research.
Title: The Rhetoric and Humanism of Cicero and Its Impact on the Humanists of the Early Italian Renaissance.
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Name(s): Shaw, James G.
Smith, Voncile, Thesis advisor
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Created: 1996
Date Issued: 1996
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 112 p.
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: Marcus Tullius Cicero exerted a major influence on rhetoric: intellectual writings, oratory, and education in the Early Italian Renaissance. Cicero's humanism expressed a fellowship with society and included justice, reasoning, moral and social duties to the community. It eventually replaced traditional learning and established a pattern of classical studies that was to continue for centuries. The Early Italian Renaissance was basically a cultural, literary and scholarly movement that represented an important and new phase in the study and interpretation of the history of classical antiquity and played a unique role in Western cultural history. This paper explores the extent to which contemporary authors have identified the similarities and differences between Cicero's humanism and the humanism of the Early Italian Renaissance. The author suggests areas requiring further research.
Identifier: FA00000962 (IID)
Degree granted: Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Subject(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism and interpretation
Humanism
Rhetoric, Ancient
Renaissance--Italy
Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559
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