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Author Cavallo, Sandra, author.

Title Healthy living in late Renaissance Italy / Sandra Cavallo, Tessa Storey.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Contents Print and culture of prevention -- Practices of healthy living : the sources -- Worrying about the air -- A good night's sleep -- Gentle exercise and genteel living -- The well-tempered man -- "Salute!" (cheers!) : drinking to your health -- Excretions as excrements : the hygiene of the body.
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Subject Public health -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
Public health.
Italy.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Medicine, Preventive -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
Medicine, Preventive.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Storey, Tessa, author.
Other Form: Reproduction of (manifestation): Cavallo, Sandra. Healthy living in late Renaissance Italy. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199678136 (DLC) 2013942159 (OCoLC)858310087
ISBN 9780191666841 (electronic book)
019166684X (electronic book)
9780191757686 (ebook)
0191757683 (ebook)
0199678138
9780199678136

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