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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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    A Hardback by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, G. W. Pigman III

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 17/09/2019
      ISBN13: 9780674987500, 978-0674987500
      ISBN10: 0674987500

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      Book Synopsis
      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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