The Virtues and Vices of Speech

by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano and Giovanni Pontano

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674987500
• ISBN13: 9780674987500
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"