Download or read book Master Tully: Cicero in Tudor England written by Howard Jones and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1981 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Tully' is the first full-scale examinnation of the influence of the Roman statesman, orator, essayist, and stylist Marcus Tullius Cicero upon English intellectual and cultural life during the sixteenth century. Following early chapters on Cicero's life, career, and writings, the author examines Cicero's reputation during the mediaeval period, with special emphasis upon the manuscript tradition of Ciceronian works, and details the emergence of Cicero as a model of the ideal civic humanist during the early years of the Renaissance in Italy.