Controversies Over the Imitation of Cicero as a Model for Style, and Some Phases of Their Influence in the Schools of the Renaissance #251441

Though the term Ciceronianism could be applied to Cicero's influence and teaching in the field of politics, philosophy, or rhe toric, it is limited in the present study to the technical department of rhetoric and represents the trend of literary Opinion in regard to accepting Cicero as a model for imitation in composition.