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Darrera modificació: 2025-07-04
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Madella, Laura, "The More the Years the Less the Food: Alvise Cornaro on The Sober Life (1558)", dins: Guidi, Simone - Braga, Joaquim (eds.), The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century: Intersections of Medicine and Philosophy, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine), 2023, pp. 51-67.
- Resum
- The relationship between food and health has always received great attention from scientists, scholars and the laymen. As in 1558 the Venetian Luigi Cornaro wrote the first Discorso sulla Vita Sobria (‘Discourse on a Sober Life'), the Galenic paradigm was still undisputed in the medical culture and it is well recognizable in the advice around which the message of the work revolves: as man grows older, he must reduce the amount of food and beverages consumed, so as not to fatigue the digestive system, avoid humoural imbalance and preserve a better state of health. Since its publication, Cornaro's Discourse has enjoyed unprecedented success. I believe that there is a specific aspect in the work that catalyzes the reader's attention and distinguishes Cornaro's Discourse. Such is the issue of the amount of food in relation to the age of man and its moral and symbolic implications, direct and indirect, which the author reiterated and declined in different ways throughout the work.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Alimentació
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031 ...
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