Discourses on a sober and temperate life : wherein is demonstrated, by his own example, the method of preserving health to extreme old age / by Lewis Cornaro ; translated from the Italian original.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1836
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    PREFACE. The author of the following discourses, Lewis Cornaro, was descended from one of the most illustrious families in Venice, but, by the ill conduct of some of his relations, had the misfortune to be deprived of the dignity of a nobleman, and excluded from all ho- nors and public employments in the state. Chagrined at this unmerited disgrace, he retired to Padua, and married a lady of the family of Spiltemberg, whose name was Veronica. Being in possession of a good estate, he was very desirous of having chil- dren ; and, after a long expectation of this happiness, his wife was delivered of a daugh- ter, to whom he gave the name of Clara. This was his only child, who afterwards was married to John the son of Fantini Cornaro, of a rich family in Cyprus, while that island belonged to the republic of Venice. Though he was far advanced in life when his daughter Clara came into the world, yet he lived to see her very old, and the mother of eight sons and three daughters. He was a man of sound understanding, determined cou- rage and resolution. In his younger days he had contracted infirmities by intemperance,