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The Virtues and Vices of Speech (Hardcover)
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The Virtues and Vices of Speech (Hardcover)
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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Giovanni Pontano, who adopted the academic sobriquet "Gioviano,"
was prime minister to several kings of Naples and the most
important Neapolitan humanist of the quattrocento. Best known today
as a Latin poet, he also composed dialogues depicting the
intellectual life of the humanist academy of which he was the head,
and, late in life, a number of moral essays that became his most
popular prose works. The De sermone (On Speech), translated into
English here for the first time, aims to provide a moral anatomy,
following Aristotelian principles, of various aspects of speech
such as truthfulness and deception, flattery, gossip, loquacity,
calumny, mercantile bargaining, irony, wit, and ridicule. In each
type of speech, Pontano tries to identify what should count as the
virtuous mean, that which identifies the speaker as a person of
education, taste, and moral probity.
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