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

Download or read book Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Ad M. Antonium Sabellicum De Sermone Libri Sex written by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano and published by I Tatti Renaissance Library. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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