The Art of Living Long (Classics in Longevity and Aging)

by Luigi Cornaro

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Sixteenth century Venetian Ambassador and Renaissance Christian Luigi Cornaro was celebrated in his time for his stance on dietary self-restraint, moderate living, and living to the age of 103. For these hundred of years his classic book has survived as a renowned text on longevity and an inspiring treatise on the path of temperance that the author believed could lead anyone out of a state of illness and into a healthy long life. The Art of Living Long contains Cornaro's four discourses, show more respectively concerned with demonstrating his ideas through his own example, exploring the necessity of tem show less

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Canonical title*
Traktat vom maßvollen Leben
Original title
Discorsi della vita sobria
Alternate titles*
The Sure and Certain Method of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life; Vom maßvollen Leben; Come vivere cento anni : Discorso della vita sobra
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Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
613Applied science & technologyMedicine & healthPersonal health and Fitness
LCC
RA776.75 .C67513MedicinePublic aspects of medicinePublic aspects of medicinePublic health. Hygiene. Preventive medicinePersonal health and hygiene
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