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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2014, 2014
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
ISBN: | 9780191757686 |