The art of living long / a new and improved English version of the treatise by the celebrated Venetian centenarian Luidi Cornaro ; with essays by Joseph Addison, Lord Bacon, and Sir William Temple.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The art of living long / a new and improved English version of the treatise by the celebrated Venetian centenarian Luidi Cornaro ; with essays by Joseph Addison, Lord Bacon, and Sir William Temple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    park and courtyard, the fountain, the crenelated battlements, and other things of more or less secondary importance, were constructed by the architect Andrea Da Yalle, the sculptor Agostino Eighetti, and others. In the course of time occurred other small additions or restorations; but always in conformity with the original design of the villa, in which one can admire, to this day, the happy intellect that created it. This, like the rest of Cornaro’s buildings, has been at- tributed to his friend without any proof or reason. Selvatico alone reasoned, after examining the palace, that “The style of architecture, more than any of the historical notes, discloses it to be the work of Falconetto”; and he added this opinion: “Though not everyone may be contented with all that adorns this structure, none can help admiring the beauty and richness of its design.” Great astonishment was felt that Cardinal Francesco Pisani visited only once — perhaps in 1547, and just for a few hours — that superb and exquisite palace which used to fill with pride the hearts even of those who had merely the good fortune to own property in its neighborhood; as was the case with that chaplain who wrote, in Latin, this inscription on the wall: langfrancus canipanona, nicknamed ligneamineus, THE SON OF ALEXANDER, CHAPLAIN OF THE CHURCH OF THE FATHER, HAS PREPARED THIS HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH THE AD- JOINING HILL CAREFULLY CULTIVATED BY HIM AND COVERING FIFTEEN FIELDS, NEAR THE VERY BEAUTIFUL PALACE AND DE- LIGHTFUL GARDENS OF THE BISHOPRIC, IN THE VILLAGE OF LIVIANUS, FOR PLEASURE AND FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF HIS FRIENDS, IN THE YEAR MDLXIIl/'' In one of his dialogues, published in 1561, the eminent jurist, Marco Mantova Benavides, puts these words in the mouth of Ulisse Bassiani: “You certainly do the place [the suburban villa at Bassanello] a wrong no less than does Car- dinal Pisani, who has only been once to the palace which he