Table of Contents

Notes on the Translation

‘Introduction’ by Marisa Milani

Letter to Bishop Musso by Bernardino Tomitano

Cornaro’s Treatise on the Sober Life

Addition to the Sober Life

Brief Compendium

Letter to Daniele Barbaro

Loving Exhortation

Glossary

Notes to Cornaro (pp.1-64)

Eulogy

Sperone Speroni: Letter Against Sobriety

Sperone Speroni: Letter In Favour of the Sober Life

Selected Letters

Letter by Alvise Giacomo Cornaro Piscopia

Notes on the Texts (pp. 81-127)

Essay by Marisa Milani:

‘How to Attain Immortality Living One Hundred Years,

Or the Fortune of the Vita Sobria in the Anglo-Saxon World’

Notes to Essay ‘Immortality…’

Bibliography

Promotional Information

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About the Author

Hiroko Fudemoto is a translator based in Los Angeles.

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