Healthy living in late Renaissance Italy /:

The authors explore 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 surv...

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Hauptverfasser: Cavallo, Sandra (VerfasserIn), Storey, Tessa (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Zusammenfassung:The authors explore 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 - they demonstrate that a sophisticated culture of prevention was being developed in 16th-century Italian cities.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191666841
019166684X
9780191757686
0191757683

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