Download or read book Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Ad M. Antonium Sabellicum De Sermone Libri Sex written by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano and published by I Tatti Renaissance Library. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ridicul