Writings on the Sober Life : The Art and Grace of Living Long / Alvise Cornaro ; edited and translated by Hiroko Fudemoto ; foreword by Greg Critser ; introduction and essay by Marisa Milani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.

Contributor:

Fudemoto, Hiroko.

Series:

Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library series.

Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library

Standardized Title:

Discorsi della vita sobria. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health--Early works to 1800.

Health.

Longevity--Early works to 1800.

Longevity.

Medical Subjects:

Health.

Longevity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edition offers the most coherent, uncensored, and complete rendering of this Early Modern classic ever available in English.

Contents:

Introduction to Cornaro by Marisa Milani

Letter to Bishop Cornelio Musso by Bernardino Tomitano

A Treatise on the Sober Life by the Magnificent Messer Luigi Cornaro, Noble Venetian

Addition to the Treatise on the Sober Life by Messer Alvise Cornaro

A Brief Compendium of The Sober Life by Alvise Cornaro With Many Things Added, Especially Useful and Necessary for Those Who Are Old

Letter Written by the Magnificent Alvise Cornaro to the Most Reverend Barbaro, Patriarch Elect of Aquileia

A Loving Exhortation by the Magnificent Messer Alvise Cornaro

Eulogy for Alvise Cornaro Selected Letters

How to Attain Immortality Living One Hundred Years, or The Fortune of the Vita Sobria in the Anglo-Saxon World

Selected Terminology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

Translation of: Discorsi della vita sobria.

ISBN:

1-4426-6835-0

1-4426-6834-2

OCLC:

872601117