Writings on the Sober Life

The Art and Grace of Living Long
Übersetzer: Fudemoto, Hiroko

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edition offers the most coherent, uncensored, and complete rendering of this Early Modern classic ever available in English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Critical edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781442645097
• ISBN-10: 1442645091
• Artikelnr.: 37667238

Autorenporträt

By Alvise Cornaro Translated by Hiroko Fudemoto Introduction by Marisa Milani Foreword by Greg Critser

Inhaltsangabe

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