The art of living long. A new and improved English version of the treatise

For people of whom less than two hundredths of a percent reach the age that, according to the plan of Nature, everyone should go, the words of the elderly author of "The Temperate Life" have a deep meaning. This volume is addressed to them. Louis Cornaro's own account, written near the end of more than a century of life, on the means of his complete recovery from the almost hopeless complication of bodily ailments to the happy state that he enjoyed for so long, one might say, formed a life story that has no analogues in history in its special meaning. Presented here is a carefully edited version of his famous treatise, compiled by capable translators. As a result of a painstaking study of ancient documents in the archives of Venice and Padua, the reader is also offered historical material concerning Cornaro and his family. Much of this cannot be found in any of the previous editions of his work in the various languages into which they were translated. Of the other eminent writers whose teachings on longevity have been included in this volume, little needs to be said here. One of them, a few years after the death of the famous 100-year-old citizen, in Latin, emphasized for the whole world the significant advantages that Cornaro derived from the habit of complete self-restraint, to which he was accustomed in his youth, and from which until the end of his days he never deviated.