Neo-Latin literature

literature in Latin on Croatia teritory from 9th century till today

thumb|Title page from Nizolio's Observationes in Ciceronem (1561 edition) Ciceronianism was the tendency among the Renaissance humanists to imitate the language and style of Cicero (106–43 BC) and hold it up as a model of Latin. The term was coined in the 19th century from the much older term ciceronianus, "a Ciceronian". That term is contrasted with christianus (Christian) in Jerome in the 4th century. Erasmus employs it the same way in the title of his dialogue Ciceronianus (1528). During the Renaissance, however, the term could have both positive and negative connotations, depending on whet

a form of theatre practised in the colleges of the Society of Jesus between the 16th and 18th centuries, as a way of instructing students in rhetoric, assimilating Christian values and imparting Catholic doctrine.