Misremembering Ciceronian Rome in Ben Jonson’s Catiline by Philip Goldfarb Styrt

“…Jonson’s portrayal of Ciceronian Rome thus serves as a case study of how the process of remembering the past is not politically neutral, but always actively in use by the present.…”
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Les lettres de Lord Chesterfield : decency, ou salvation by « Les Grâces » by Thierry Labica

“…The resulting departure from the (English) particular in the direction of the (gallocentric) universal involves a historical bifurcation between earlier expectations of ‘decent’ outward manifestations of (ciceronian or Christian) inwardness and the sheer social gymnastics of dissimulation. …”
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Gold and Apes. Des usages du scepticisme dans la philosophie de Robert Boyle by Jean-Pierre Grima-Morales

“…But today it seems necessary to incorporate this rhetorical scepticism into the evolution of the Ciceronian rhetoric of the Renaissance as well as into the dynamic propagation of mechanist ideas in Europe. …”
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