This article wants to focus on Cicero’s portrait offered by Giuseppe Rensi (1871-1941), who surely does not aim at a rigorous or perfect philological reconstruction, but rather seeks to insert Cicero as the corner stone in a sort of peculiar (and original) long history of ‘Italian skepticism’ as well as to present him as an ancient alter ego, and accordingly as a perennial model of the strong opposition to any form of totalitarian dictatorship, whatever it may be, namely either the winning Caesarism in Rome at the end of the I century B.C.E. or the suffocating twenty years of Mussolini’s fascism in Italy in the first part of the XX century.

La rivalutazione di Cicerone in Giuseppe Rensi: un interessato ritratto novecentesco / Spinelli, Emidio. - In: CICERONIANA ON LINE. - ISSN 2532-5353. - VIII, 1:(2024), pp. 309-324.

La rivalutazione di Cicerone in Giuseppe Rensi: un interessato ritratto novecentesco

Emidio Spinelli
2024

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This article wants to focus on Cicero’s portrait offered by Giuseppe Rensi (1871-1941), who surely does not aim at a rigorous or perfect philological reconstruction, but rather seeks to insert Cicero as the corner stone in a sort of peculiar (and original) long history of ‘Italian skepticism’ as well as to present him as an ancient alter ego, and accordingly as a perennial model of the strong opposition to any form of totalitarian dictatorship, whatever it may be, namely either the winning Caesarism in Rome at the end of the I century B.C.E. or the suffocating twenty years of Mussolini’s fascism in Italy in the first part of the XX century.
2024
Cicero; Giuseppe Rensi; skepticism; politics; fascism
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La rivalutazione di Cicerone in Giuseppe Rensi: un interessato ritratto novecentesco / Spinelli, Emidio. - In: CICERONIANA ON LINE. - ISSN 2532-5353. - VIII, 1:(2024), pp. 309-324.
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