Writings on the sober life : the art and grace of living long / Alvise Cornaro ; edited and translated, with additional notes by Hiroko Fudemoto ; foreword by Greg Critser ; introduction and essay by Marisa Milani.

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]

xxix, 251 pages ; 24 cm.

Translation of: Discorsi della vita sobria.

Introduction to Cornaro by Marisa Milani -- Letter to Bishop Cornelio Musso by Bernardino Tomitano -- A treatise on the sober life by the Magnificent Messer Luigi Cornaro, Noble Venetian -- Addition to the treatise on the sober life by Messer Alvise Cornaro -- A brief compendium of the sober life by Alvise Cornaro with many things added, especially useful and necessary for those who are old -- Letter written by the Magnificent Alvise Cornaro to the Most Reverend Barbaro, Patriarch Elect of Aquileia -- A loving exhortation by the Magnificent Messer Alvise Cornaro -- Eulogy for Alvise Cornaro -- Selected letters -- How to attain immortality living one hundred years, or the fortune of the Vita Sobria in the Anglo-Saxon world -- Selected terminology.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index.