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Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life

Luigi Cornaro

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At an age when most men were long dead, Luigi Cornaro credited a spare and sober table for his vigor and wrote to persuade the world. His famous discourses on the temperate life turned moderation into a program for reaching great age. A Renaissance classic of longevity thinking, endlessly reprinted and quoted. Take counsel from a man who claimed to have beaten time.

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6 chapters

  1. 1DISCOURSES ON A SOBER AND TEMPERATE LIFE.
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3A TREATISE ON A SOBER LIFE
  4. 4A COMPENDIUM OF A SOBER LIFE
  5. 5LETTER FROM SIGNOR LEWIS CORNARO, TO THE RIGHT REVEREND BARBARO, PATRIARCH ELECT OF AQUILEIA.
  6. 6FINIS
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