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LUIGI CORNARO (1457–1566)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 163 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUIGI CORNARO (1457–1566)  , a Venetian nobleman, famous for his
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treatises on a temperate
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life . In his youth he lived freely, but after a severe illness at the age of
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forty, he began under medical advice gradually to reduce his
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diet . For some time he restricted himself to a daily allowance of I2 oz. of solid food and 14 as. of wine; later in life he reduced still further his
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bill of fare, and found he could support his life and strength with no more solid
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meat than an egg a day . At the age of eighty-three he wrote his
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treatise on The Sure and Certain Method of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life, the
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English
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translation of which went through numerous
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editions; and this was followed by three others on the same subject, composed at the ages of eighty-six, ninety-one and ninety-five respectively . The first three were published at Padua in 1558 . They are written, says Addison (Spectator, No . 195), " with such a spirit of cheerfulness, religion and good sense, as are the natural concomitants of
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temperance and sobriety." He died at Padua at the age of ninety-eight .

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LUIGI CORNARO (1457–1566) and "He died at Padua at the age of ninety-eight " (last sentence) i think one of these have to be wrong :)
Luigi Cornaro did not drink wine with alcohol. He drank fresh grape juice. Big difference.
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