The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those
writers of Neo-Latin who favored imitation of Cicero alone, as the
single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to
follow an eclectic array of literary models. This Ciceronian
controversy is the subject of the texts collected for the first
time in this volume: exchanges of letters between Angelo Poliziano
and Paolo Cortesi; between Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and
Pietro Bembo; and between Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio and his
mentor Celio Calcagnini. A postscript by Lilio Gregorio Giraldi and
writings by Antonio Possevino comment further on this
correspondence.
Because they address some of the most fundamental aspects of
literary production, these quarrels shed light on similar debates
about vernacular literature, which also turned on imitation and the
role of the author. The Ciceronian controversy can also be seen as
part of larger cultural movements, such as the choice of vernacular
language over Latin, the development of Jesuit pedagogy, and the
religious conflicts that characterized much of the Renaissance.
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