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VIRTUES AND VICES OF SPEECH
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| By: |
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£29.95 |
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£23.36 |
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£6.59 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674987500 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674987500 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 February, 2019 |
| Series: |
The I Tatti Renaissance Library |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Language: |
English |
| Description: |
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. |
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