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  • Eloquence in Greece and Rome

    Giancarlo Abbamonte, Lorenzo Miletti, Luigi Spina (a cura di), Discorsi alla prova. Atti del Quinto Colloquio italo-francese, Napoli 21-23 settembre 2006, (Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di Filologia Classica F. Arnaldi dell’università degli studi di Napoli « Federico II » n. s., 1), 2008 The work is completely online. Three articles are particularly interesting for Tullianan topics: R. Ucciero,…

  • Clodius

    Luca Fezzi, Il tribuno Clodio, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008, 148 p. The writing of a biography about Clodius presents undeniable difficulties because of the marked partiality of the sources, first and foremost, Cicero, who, in describing this character, often played on mechanisms of selection, omission and interpretation. In Fezzi’s volume the ancient sources, punctually listed in…

  • YASUNARI TAKADA: A CICERONIAN AT THE COURT OF THE RISING SUN

    En français In italiano Born in 1950 in Tokyo. Education at the International Christian University (English Literature and the Classics) and graduate studies at the Universities of Tokyo and Cambridge (Renaissance English Literature and Medieval Latin, respectively). In 1982 Associate Prof. of English Literature at Tohoku University. In 1989 Associate Prof. of Comparative Literature, the…