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CORNARO, Alvise (Luigi) (1467 – 1566)

1467 – 1566

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1558 CE

#1592

Trattato de la vita sobria.

Garrison considered this “the best treatise on personal hygiene and the simple life in existence”. Cornaro was called the Apostle of Senescence. "When he was about 40, Cornaro found himself exhausted and i…