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2004
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John Monfasani, « Renaissance Ciceronianism and Christianity », Publications de l'École Française de Rome, ID : 10670/1.1ry6oo
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In his Ciceronianus of 1528 Erasmus tried to transform a literary quarrel between himself and the Ciceronians into a religious issue. Not only should we not take seriously his paranoid hostility towards the Ciceronians, but we should also understand that far from being vanquished by the Ciceronianus, Ciceronianism remained the dominant influence in the teaching of Latin throughout the Renaissance. The Jesuits played an important role in the success of Ciceronianism in Catholic lands into the eighteenth century, but no less so did many other non-Jesuit Catholic authorities. Similarly, the Protestant tradition of Ciceronianism can be traced into the eighteenth century from its beginning at the start of the Reformation in major figures such as Philip Melanchthon and Joachim Camerarius.