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Writings on the Sober Life : The Art and Grace of Living Long.
Alvise Cornaro (c.1484-1566) was the son of a Paduan innkeeper with presumed ties to the patrician Cornaro family of Venice. Highly ambitious, he acquired a name for himself as a businessman, architect, and patron of the arts. Critically ill around age 40 - likely with diabetes and gout - he resolve...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Note on the Translation
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to Cornaro
- Letter to Bishop Cornelio Musso by Bernardino Tomitano
- A Treatise on the Sober Life by the Magnificent Messer Luigi Cornaro,6 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
- Bibliography
- Index