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Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 13, 2013)
Description:
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.