Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life / Wherein Is Demonstrated, by His Own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age

The Venetian nobleman who was given up for dead at forty and lived vigorously past a hundred. Luigi Cornaro tells how strict moderation in food and drink transformed a failing body into a long and cheerful old age. Written across his own later decades, it is part memoir, part manifesto for temperate living. One of the most famous longevity books ever written, and proof, in its author, of its own advice.