Cicero in Basel: Locating Classical Reception in a Humanist City

The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Ciceros presence in the cultural history of Basel from the citys foundation to the heyday of humanist print culture, to the cultural politics of the modern day. Written by scholars working from different academic traditions and organised in four sections, they trace a broad range of engagements with Cicero in Basel across time, thus offering the rudiments of a localised form of reception history: Ciceronian Foundations focuses on Ciceros role in the citys (and her universitys) foundation myths; Editions and Commentaries centres on the Ciceronian editions and commentaries in the heyday of humanist printing culture; Discussions and Engagements situates his reception in the intellectual currents that define humanist Basel from stylistic and literary debates to the controversies of the theologians; lastly, Scholarship and Education explores the entanglements of academic and civic life that come to define Ciceros place in Basel from the 17^th century. For all their diversity, the contributions are united in their aim to contribute both to the study of Ciceronian reception and to the cultural history and development of Basel in its European context.