{"product_id":"virtues-and-vices-of-speech","title":"Virtues and Vices of Speech","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eGiovanni Pontano, best known today as a Latin poet, also composed popular prose dialogues and essays. The \u003ci\u003eDe sermone,\u003c\/i\u003e translated into English here for the first time as \u003ci\u003eThe Virtues and Vices of Speech,\u003c\/i\u003e provides a moral anatomy of aspects of speech such as truthfulness, deception, flattery, gossip, bargaining, irony, wit, and ridicule. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 544 pages\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 27 September 2019\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\n                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGiovanni 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 \u003ci\u003eDe sermone (On Speech)\u003c\/i\u003e, translated into English here for the first time, aims to provide a moral anatomy, following Aristotelian principles, of various aspects of speech such as truthfulness and deception, flattery, gossip, loquacity, calumny, mercantile bargaining, irony, wit, and ridicule. In each type of speech, Pontano tries to identify what should count as the virtuous mean, that which identifies the speaker as a person of education, taste, and moral probity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 654g\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 208 x 140 x 31 (mm)\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780674987500\n                            \n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giovanni Gioviano Pontano","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44098290712826,"sku":"9780674987500","price":23.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/25f25b1da38d6e5b1a9b49700cdcda88.jpg?v=1625026034","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/virtues-and-vices-of-speech","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}