Marco Tulio Cicerón

"What will history say about me in six hundred years?" Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) wondered, for whom the greatest and most magnificent reward for virtue was glory. And indeed, he achieved it, because history, two thousand years later, has not forgotten Cicero. A figure of debate like few others from Antiquity, for some he was an inconsistent and intolerant politician, an insufferable egomaniac; for others, a tireless fighter for ideals of freedom, for a model of society and politics that were fading away; for everyone, a highly talented orator, an expert rhetorician, and a competent philosopher, a restless intellectual with encyclopedic knowledge. But what were his more human aspects? In addition to shedding light on Cicero as a politician, this work analyzes the hundreds of letters from his private correspondence that have survived to reveal the human side of the man.