The Virtues and Vices of Speech

ISBN-13: 9780674987500 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 544 str.

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano; G. W. Pigman III

Opis

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.