De Marco Tulio Cicerón a Manuel Antonio Carreño: Un estudio sobre
The present article proposes to search for traces of De Oficiis or Teatry of Duties of Marco Tulio Cicero in certain key moments of History. It emphasizes the moment in which the protagonists conceived an archetype of man that had an ideal of life, according to this archetype, which was shaped by a determined way of social behavior. For this aim two modern books that deal with good manners and good customs were selected. These books were Erasmo of Rotterdam’s De Civilitate Morum Puerilium and The Letters of Lord Chesterfield to His Son, both written in the XVIII century. Finally, this work centres on The Manual of Urbanity and Good Manners of the Venezuelan