{"product_id":"the-virtues-and-vices-of-giovanni-gioviano-pontano-9780674987500","title":"The Virtues and Vices of Speech","description":"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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giovanni Gioviano Pontano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674987500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674987500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Giovanni Gioviano Pontano","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47072016007423,"sku":"9780674987500","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9158fde-6d53-4efb-86cb-1b59188c0993.jpg?v=1753415566","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-virtues-and-vices-of-giovanni-gioviano-pontano-9780674987500","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}