The More the Years the Less the Food: Alvise Cornaro on The Sober Life (1558)
secondary literature · 2023
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SUMMARY
A 2023 scholarly chapter by L. Madella on Cornaro's Discorsi della vita sobria and its quantifying logic of diet and longevity (Palgrave Macmillan; eds. Guidi and Braga, pp. 62-78). The modern secondary source for the case; it situates Cornaro's regimen and its reception in the history of dietary measurement and longevity thought, the lineage that runs to later caloric-restriction research. Metadata from the published record, DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-15725-7_2.
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A 2023 scholarly chapter by L. Madella on Cornaro’s Discorsi della vita sobria and its quantifying logic of diet, age, and longevity, in a Palgrave Macmillan volume on the quantification of life and health from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The archive cites it as the modern secondary source for the case: it situates Cornaro’s regimen and its reception in the history of dietary measurement and longevity thought, the lineage that runs forward to later caloric-restriction research. Bibliographic metadata (editors Guidi and Braga, pages 62-78, 2023, DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-15725-7_2) is from the published record.