This edition offers the most coherent, uncensored, and complete rendering of this Early Modern classic ever available in English.
By Alvise Cornaro
Translated by Hiroko Fudemoto
Introduction by Marisa Milani
Foreword by Greg Critser
Notes on the Translation
‘Introduction’ by Marisa Milani
Letter to Bishop Musso by Bernardino Tomitano
Cornaro’s Treatise on the Sober Life
Addition to the Sober Life
Brief Compendium
Letter to Daniele Barbaro
Loving Exhortation
Glossary
Notes to Cornaro (pp.1-64)
Eulogy
Sperone Speroni: Letter Against Sobriety
Sperone Speroni: Letter In Favour of the Sober Life
Selected Letters
Letter by Alvise Giacomo Cornaro Piscopia
Notes on the Texts (pp. 81-127)
Essay by Marisa Milani:
‘How to Attain Immortality Living One Hundred Years,
Or the Fortune of the Vita Sobria in the Anglo-Saxon World’
Notes to Essay ‘Immortality…’
Bibliography