1560 How to Live 100 Years. Louis Cornaro lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and attained the age of 102. When a man passes the century mark, he is someone to be listened to, - particularly if that great age was reached as the result of co.
Luigi Cornaro was a famous public figure in Venice during the Renaissance, famous for living until almost one hundred years old. Revered and celebrated for his longevity, Cornaro was encouraged to author a book by fellow noblemen, so that others may learn the secret to a long and healthy life. As his old age continued, Cornaro would offer speeches on the subject and release a total of four discourses, all of which are contained in this book: The First Discourse begins with Cornaro detailing how in previous years he had been infirm. By practicing modesty and temperance in food and drink, he was able to return to a healthy condition. He also mentions undertaking certain good habits such as hill climbing, and having a home properly insulated from winter's bitter cold. In the Second Discourse, Cornaro is eighty-six. Here he divulges further insights. Realizing the great popularity of his first work on the subject, Cornero notes that those who were born infirm or weak may also benefit from his advice on temperance in eating and drinking. The Third Discourse, written when Cornaro was ninety-one, was adapted from a letter he had written to the Reverend Daniel Barbero in which he contemplates his advice on life further. The Fourth Discourse, which Cornaro also penned at ninety-one years of age, rounds off his earlier advice by encouraging all of mankind to follow in his example, so that they may achieve an advanced age. Viewed from the modern day, The Art of Living Long is perhaps the first ever example of a calorie restrictive diet recommended and detailed in writing. Many of Cornaro's principles are timeless good advice for health and vitality, which keeps this book relevant and useful. This edition is in large print, so that readers of all ages may easily absorb and comprehend Cornaro's insights on diet, temperament and virtue.
In 1583, Venetian nobleman Luigi Carnaro began writing a series of articles on healthy living entitled Discorsi della vita sobria (Discourses on Sober Living), known by some as How To Live 100 Years, or The Personal Narrative of Luigi Cornaro. Although it was translated into English, it was stilted and difficult to read. This is a unique, modern, 21st century paraphrase of Mr. Carnaro's classic that conveys the author's thoughts in a differentiated, easy-to-understand way that is sure to stand the test of time.
Alvise Cornaro (c.1484–1566), well born in Padua, was an energetic, religious man of formidable entrepreneurial skills. Critically ill – possibly with diabetes – around age 40, he resolved to abandon his sensual life. The healthier controlled diet led to his recovery, and later brought him to share this sober regime through his treatise, La vita sobria (1558). Its publication, with useful homilies for living to 100 years – proper lifestyle and proper personal diet – was a worldwide success, and his adoption of Galen's “quantity and quality,” while avoiding excess in food or drink, sound prescient to today's reader. This edition offers the most coherent, uncensored, and complete rendering of this Early Modern classic ever available in English, with Cornaro's Aggionta (“Addition”) translated here for the first time. An introduction and essay by the late scholar Marisa Milani offer biographical analysis for his theory and a history of its English editions. Also presented are letters by Cornaro's contemporaries commenting on the treatise, in addition to his eulogy (now viewed as having been written by Cornaro himself). A foreword by award-winning health journalist Greg Critser speaks to the continuing relevance of Cornaro's sixteenth-century style of self-help. Marisa Milani (1935–1997) was an eminent scholar, most notably on the Pavano poets and language. Her earlier works on Ruzzante, posthumously collected as El pì bel favelare del mondo: Saggi ruzzantiani, led to her 1983 critical edition on Alvise Cornaro.
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