Grice e Valerio: la ragione conversazionale
a Roma – morale togata – il gentiluomo romano-- filosofia italiana – Luigi
Speranza (Roma). Filosofo italiano. A philosopher of
little originality, and a notorious flatterer of TIBERIO (vedi). He is best
known for producing his IX books of memorable doings and sayings – the work is
designed primarily as a resource for moral education by means of examples –
showing how virtue is rewarded and vice punished. It preserves many otherwise
lost snippets taken from a variety of sources – including newspapers. His ‘saggi’
are not much regarded today, but they were bestsellers throughout the dark ages
and the Italian renaissance, “and I do find them incredibly amusing on a lazy
after-noon,” – Grice. Morale pretesto. Ed Shackleton, Loeb. Skidmore,
“Practical ethics for Roman Gentlemen”. Valerio Massimo. Keywords: Roma
antica. Per H. P. Grice’s Play-Group, The Swimming-Pool Library, Villa
Speranza.
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