Ciceros

[…] It is difficult to disagree with John O. Ward's conclusion that of "all these Ciceros," it was the "Cicero of the art of speaking" who was the most influential of them all. Above all, Cicero was a man of words—words that were never divorced from things. If there are many "Ciceros" onto whom successive generations have projected their own desires, fears, and literary tastes, there are no doubt just as many "Luthers" and "Reformations."

There are many Ciceros. […] these Ciceros had different histories in the medieval and Renaissance periods,[…]