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The Virtues and Vices of Speech

Buch | Hardcover
544 Seiten
2019
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-98750-0 (ISBN)
37,35 inkl. MwSt
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.
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 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.

G. W. Pigman III is Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Übersetzer G. W. Pigman III
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass
Sprache englisch
Maße 133 x 203 mm
Gewicht 635 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-674-98750-0 / 0674987500
ISBN-13 978-0-674-98750-0 / 9780674987500
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