Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Ad M. Antonium Sabellicum De Sermone Libri Sex

Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Ad M. Antonium Sabellicum De Sermone Libri Sex
Author: Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
Publisher: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Rhetoric, Medieval
ISBN: 9780674987500

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