The revaluation of Cicero in Giuseppe Rensi: an interested twentieth-century portrait
Abstract
This article explores the portrait of Cicero painted by Giuseppe Rensi (1871-1941). Rensi, this paper argues, does not aim at a rigorous or perfect philological reconstruction, but seeks to make Cicero the cornerstone in a peculiar (and original) long history of “Italian skepticism”. Rensi also presents Cicero as an ancient alter ego, and, therefore, as a paradigm of opposition to any form of totalitarian dictatorship, whether against Caesarism in Rome at the end of the I century B.C.E. or against Mussolini’s fascism in Italy in the first part of the XX century
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