CICERO, Marcus Tullius (-106 – -43)
-106 – -43
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1469 CE
#9635
De officiis. Add: Paradoxa Stoicorum; Laelius, sive de amicitia; Cato maior, sive de senectute.
Of the 71 editions of Cicero's classical work on aging and death printed in the 15th century, Cato major de senectute, the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue cites 71, indicating the extreme popularity of Cicero's works…
1470 CE
#13696
Rhetorica ad C. Herennium.
First description of the "method of loci," the memory technique as known as the "memory palace." Because of its wide use during the Middle Ages this text survives in hundreds of medieval manuscripts. Fourteen printed …
1744 CE
#9341
M. T. Cicero's Cato major, or his course of old-age: with explanatory notes.
This work was Banjamin Franklin's personal favorite of the works printed by him, and is one of the finest books to emanate from a Colonial American press. It was the first classical text printed in North America, and …