generalist press, promotional booklets, educational sheets, box office records) that help to contextualize the film’s shifting cultural significance. This article analyses the film’s reception across popular audiences and cultured elites, making use of historical sources beyond specialist film journals (such as articles from the. In the years between the end of the Second World War and 1968, Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City) (Rossellini, 1945) became a key point of reference in a number of French cultural, aesthetic and political debates. Varro thinks that the reconstruction of a totalising system, such as that of language, governed by analogy, leads to the acquisition of a universal truth which can be discovered via the morpho-etymological analysis of Latin words.
Cicero conceives a philosophical and rhetorical theory of uerisimile, in order to pretend to the same persuasive force which things themselves, i.e. But another perspective, an extralinguisc and heteronomous one, is also present in the work of these authors. background of both the grammatical excursus of Cicero’s Orator and Varro’s De lingua Latina. From an intralinguistic and « auto-nomous » perspective, ueritas can be conceived as a conventional system of verificational procedures which establish the correspondence between each unit and the analogical rules.
In this article I will focus on the concept of ueritas in relation to grammar and rhetoric during the late Roman Republic, when they were becoming independent disciplines.
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