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The Virtues and Vices of Speech (Hardcover): Giovanni Gioviano Pontano

The Virtues and Vices of Speech (Hardcover)

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano; Edited by G. W. Pigman III

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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Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Release date: September 2019
Authors: Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
Editors: G. W. Pigman III
Dimensions: 203 x 133 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-98750-0
Languages: English
Subtitles: Latin
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech)
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
LSN: 0-674-98750-0
Barcode: 9780674987500

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