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The Virtues and Vices of Speech

About The Virtues and Vices of Speech

Giovanni Pontano, best known today as a Latin poet, also composed popular prose dialogues and essays. The De sermone, translated into English here for the first time as The Virtues and Vices of Speech, provides a moral anatomy of aspects of speech such as truthfulness, deception, flattery, gossip, bargaining, irony, wit, and ridicule.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780674987500
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 544
  • Published:
  • September 17, 2019
  • Dimensions:
  • 140x208x31 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 654 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: May 30, 2024

Description of The Virtues and Vices of Speech

Giovanni Pontano, best known today as a Latin poet, also composed popular prose dialogues and essays. The De sermone, translated into English here for the first time as The Virtues and Vices of Speech, provides a moral anatomy of aspects of speech such as truthfulness, deception, flattery, gossip, bargaining, irony, wit, and ridicule.

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