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The Virtues and Vices of Speech
part of the The I Tatti Renaissance Library series
- Binding:
- Hardback
- Pages:
- 544
- Published:
- September 16, 2019
- Dimensions:
- 140x208x31 mm.
- Weight:
- 654 g.
Delivery:
2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: January 26, 2025
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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