Ruined in health by the excesses of his youth, the Venetian Luigi Cornaro adopted a severely measured diet and lived, by his own proud account, to a vigorous old age. These discourses, written in his eighties and nineties and given here in a 1779 English translation, describe his regimen, his cheerful daily life and his conviction that temperance had made him almost proof against illness.
One of the most reprinted longevity books ever written, best read as Renaissance self-portrait rather than medical advice. Download the free EPUB.