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The Virtues and Vices of Speech - Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, and Pigman III, G W (Translated by)
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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 ridicul

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The Virtues and Vices of Speech 2019, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674987500

Latin

Hardcover