The Virtues And Vices Of Speech

by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
language: english
Publisher: Harvard University Press, September of 2019 ‧
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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.

The Virtues And Vices Of Speech

by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano

Property Description
ISBN: 9780674987500
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: September of 2019
Language: English
Dimensions: 133 x 203 x 20 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Format: Book
Collection: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Linguistics and Philology
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780674987500

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