By William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Katherine Wasdin
This assortment brings jointly prime specialists in a few fields of the arts to provide a brand new point of view at the classical culture. Drawing on reception reviews, philology and early smooth reports, the essays discover the interplay among literary feedback and the a number of cultural contexts during which texts have been produced, came upon, appropriated and translated. The intersection of Realpolitik and textual feedback, poetic and musical aesthetics, and authority and self-fashioning all come lower than scrutiny. The canonical Latin writers and their next reception shape the spine of the amount, with a spotlight at the eu Renaissance. It therefore marks a reconnection among classical and early glossy reviews and the concomitant rapprochement of philological and cultural historic ways to texts and different artistic endeavors. This publication should be of curiosity to students in classics, Renaissance stories, comparative literature, English, Italian and artwork heritage.
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Ciceronis de Re Publica,” pp. 34–5. The author (not given in the original text; from Cameron, Research Keys to the American Renaissance) was Alexander Everett. The reason for NAR’s interest in De re publica is unclear: on the one hand, it may reflect American interest in a constitutional theory so close to that underlying the United States Constitution, or in fact the admiration for Cicero and De re publica of the most eminent Bostonian statesman, John Adams; on the other hand, more cynically, it is worth noting that the first American edition of De re publica was published in the same year by Oliver Everett, not coincidentally also the publisher of NAR itself and the father of the reviewer.
Quoted (among others) by Treves, “Ciceronianismo e anticiceronianismo nella cultura italiani del secolo xix,” p. 414. “Arouse the dead” 37 more of De re publica had been found than was in fact the case; the North American Review – which printed the longest and most detailed notice of the new text, far fuller than Lachmann’s comments in G¨ottingische gelehrte Anzeigen46 – explained: The high expectations entertained of the work upon all these grounds have been, as is usual in similar cases, partly disappointed, and partly gratified.
24, published in 1820; and by Peyron in Turin D. 22 (destroyed by fire in 1904), published in 1824. ), Texts and Transmission, p. 56. Scipione Maffei had indicated the presence of the text of Gaius before Niebuhr discovered it; see Timpanaro, Aspetti e figure della cultura ottocentesca, pp. 254–5. On the quotations of De re publica, see Heck, Die Bezeugung von Ciceros Schrift De re publica. Bernardi, De la r´epublique ou du meilleur gouvernement. ), M. Tulli Ciceronis de re publica quae supersunt, pp.