The Renaissance Florentine chancellor Leonardo Bruni praised Cicero as the man
"who carried philosophy from Greece to Italy, and nourished it with the golden river
of his eloquence."
The legal culture of Elizabethan England, exemplified by
Sir Edward Coke, was "steeped in Ciceronian rhetoric."
The Scottish moral philosopher
Francis Hutcheson, as a student at Glasgow, "was attracted most by Cicero, for whom he always professed the greatest admiration."
More generally in eighteenth-century Great Britain, Cicero's name was a household word among educated people.[30] Likewise, "in the admiration of early Americans Cicero took pride of place as orator, political theorist, stylist, and moralist."
The British polemicist Thomas Gordon "incorporated Cicero into the radical ideological tradition
that
travelled from the mother country to the colonies in the course of the eighteenth century and
decisively shaped
early American political culture."[32] Cicero's description of the immutable, eternal, and universal
natural law was quoted by Burlamaque and later by the American revolutionary legal scholar
James Wilson.
Cicero became John Adams's "foremost model of public service, republican virtue,
and forensic eloquence."[35] Adams wrote of Cicero that "as all the ages of the world have not
produced a greater statesman and philosopher united in the same character, his authority should
have great weight."
Thomas Jefferson "first encountered Cicero as a schoolboy learning Latin, and continued to read his
letters and discourses as long as he lived. He admired him as a patriot, valued his opinions as a moral
philosopher, and there is little doubt that he looked upon Cicero's life, with his love of study and
aristocratic country life, as a model for his own." Jefferson described Cicero as "the father of
eloquence and philosophy."
"who carried philosophy from Greece to Italy, and nourished it with the golden river
of his eloquence."
The legal culture of Elizabethan England, exemplified by
Sir Edward Coke, was "steeped in Ciceronian rhetoric."
The Scottish moral philosopher
Francis Hutcheson, as a student at Glasgow, "was attracted most by Cicero, for whom he always professed the greatest admiration."
More generally in eighteenth-century Great Britain, Cicero's name was a household word among educated people.[30] Likewise, "in the admiration of early Americans Cicero took pride of place as orator, political theorist, stylist, and moralist."
The British polemicist Thomas Gordon "incorporated Cicero into the radical ideological tradition
that
travelled from the mother country to the colonies in the course of the eighteenth century and
decisively shaped
early American political culture."[32] Cicero's description of the immutable, eternal, and universal
natural law was quoted by Burlamaque and later by the American revolutionary legal scholar
James Wilson.
Cicero became John Adams's "foremost model of public service, republican virtue,
and forensic eloquence."[35] Adams wrote of Cicero that "as all the ages of the world have not
produced a greater statesman and philosopher united in the same character, his authority should
have great weight."
Thomas Jefferson "first encountered Cicero as a schoolboy learning Latin, and continued to read his
letters and discourses as long as he lived. He admired him as a patriot, valued his opinions as a moral
philosopher, and there is little doubt that he looked upon Cicero's life, with his love of study and
aristocratic country life, as a model for his own." Jefferson described Cicero as "the father of
eloquence and philosophy."
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