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

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