The Rhetoric and Humanism of Cicero and Its Impact on the Humanists of the Early Italian Renaissance
Date of Award
1996
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Smith, Voncile
Abstract
Marcus Tullius Cicero exerted a major influence on rhetoric: intellectual writings, oratory, and education in the Early Italian Renaissance. Cicero's humanism expressed a fellowship with society and included justice, reasoning, moral and social duties to the community. It eventually replaced traditional learning and established a pattern of classical studies that was to continue for centuries. The Early Italian Renaissance was basically a cultural, literary and scholarly movement that represented an important and new phase in the study and interpretation of the history of classical antiquity and played a unique role in Western cultural history. This paper explores the extent to which contemporary authors have identified the similarities and differences between Cicero's humanism and the humanism of the Early Italian Renaissance. The author suggests areas requiring further research.
Extent
112 p.
Recommended Citation
Shaw, James G., "The Rhetoric and Humanism of Cicero and Its Impact on the Humanists of the Early Italian Renaissance" (1996). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 1031.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/1031
Identifier
FA00000962
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters