DiRenzo

My Entry
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeslieRodriguez/022947.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2008/01/the_first_secretary.html

"......Tiro transcribed and edited Cicero’s speeches, composed, collected, and eventually published his voluminous correspondence, and organized and managed his archives and library." (Direnzo. His Master's Voice)

Here is the link to my blog:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2008/01/el336direnzothe_end_of_the_ora.html

"Cicero was a homo novus, a New Man, a middle-class provincial elbowing his way into Rome's exclusive senatorial class. At the start of his career, he lacked the dignitas, the personal dignity and social clout, necessary to give his words unquestioned authority. Writing was Cicero’s way of legitimizing his speaking; and Tiro, in a sense, became his master's voice. (Di Renzo, "His Master's Voice" 9)"

Trackback: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherUlicne//022957.html

"...Tiro ""compressed and simplified"" Roman copyhand, capitonlonis rustica, into an ""abstract"" symbol system." (Di Renzo pg. 7)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidCristello/2008/01/di_renzo_reading_forgotten_scr.html

“Cicero compares the pen to an aqueduct or conduit: it allows thoughts to ‘flow’ and channels the best ideas to ‘the point of [one’s] pen.’ This technical metaphor never would have occurred to a patrician orator, who would have considered it undignified, but Cicero was homo novius, a New Man…”

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaSawyer/2008/01/direnzo.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RachelPrichard/2008/01/el_336_freelanc.html#comments

"For convenience, certain abbreviations were used in monuments, most famously “S.P.Q.R.,” Senatus Populusque Romanus: the Senate and People of Rome..."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StormyKnight/022968.html