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Cicero's Pro Caelio: Advanced Placement Edition (Latin Edition) (edition 1997)

by Stephen Ciraolo

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Pro Marco Caelio is perhaps Cicero's best-loved speech and has long been regarded as one of the best surviving examples of Roman oratory. Speaking in defence of the young aristocrat Marcus Caelius Rufus on charges of political violence, Cicero scores his points with wit but also with searing invective directed at a supporter of the prosecution, Clodia Metelli, whom he represents as seeking vengeance as a lover spurned by his client. This new edition and detailed commentary offers advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as scholars, a detailed analysis of Cicero's rhetorical strategies and stylistic refinements and presents a systematic account of the background and significance of the speech, including in-depth explanations of Roman court proceedings.… (more)
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Title:Cicero's Pro Caelio: Advanced Placement Edition (Latin Edition)
Authors:Stephen Ciraolo
Info:Bolchazy Carducci Pub (1997), Paperback, 192 pages
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Cicero: Pro Caelio by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Una grazia e una leggerezza di tocco che neppure i Greci avrebbero potuto superare.
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Probabilmente la maggior parte delle persone si immagina Cicerone come un uomo dall'aria greve, accigliata, seriosa. Uno assolutamente incapace di far ridere chicchessia.

Ebbene, nella Pro Caelio, Cicerone dimostra di essere in grado di usare una ironia e arguzia in modo così elegante e misurato da essere assolutamente irresistibile anche per i giorni nostri. Ad una ad una, smonta tutte le accuse, riducendole a dicerie, maldicenze e puntando il dito contro la vera artefice di quel processo-farsa: Clodia, donna "scandalosamente priva di inibizioni" che voleva vendicarsi per esser stata scaricata.

Eppure, nella Pro Caelio c'è molto più di questo. Sullo sfondo si intravedono il conflitto generazionale, la disaffezione verso la politica (vista ormai solo come una corsa all'accaparramento della poltrona migliore), il ribaltamento dei vecchi valori (e quindi amore per il lusso, sperpero dei patrimoni familiari, carriere facili)... Vi ricorda qualcosa?

Un'orazione quanto mai attuale. Vi consiglio l'edizione Bur perché arricchita di un'interessantissima introduzione e correlata di note che aiutano nella comprensione del testo. ( )
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Austin, R.G.Editormain authorsome editionsconfirmed
Vollgraff, J. C.Editorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Pro Marco Caelio is perhaps Cicero's best-loved speech and has long been regarded as one of the best surviving examples of Roman oratory. Speaking in defence of the young aristocrat Marcus Caelius Rufus on charges of political violence, Cicero scores his points with wit but also with searing invective directed at a supporter of the prosecution, Clodia Metelli, whom he represents as seeking vengeance as a lover spurned by his client. This new edition and detailed commentary offers advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as scholars, a detailed analysis of Cicero's rhetorical strategies and stylistic refinements and presents a systematic account of the background and significance of the speech, including in-depth explanations of Roman court proceedings.

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