Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy

by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey

Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives. Drawing on a wide variety of sources - ranging from cheap healthy living guides in the vernacular to personal letters, conduct literature, household inventories, and surviving images and objects - this volume demonstrates that a sophisticated culture of prevention was being developed in sixteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199678138
• ISBN13: 9780199678136
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"