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Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy explores 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 - this volume
demonstrates that a sophisticated culture of prevention was being
developed in sixteenth-century Italian cities. This culture sought
to regulate the factors thought to influence health, and centred
particularly on the home and domestic routines such as sleep
patterns, food and drink consumption, forms of exercise, hygiene,
control of emotions, and monitoring the air quality to which the
body was exposed. Concerns about healthy living also had a
substantial impact on the design of homes and the dissemination of
a range of household objects. This study thus reveals the forgotten
role of medical concerns in shaping everyday life and domestic
material culture. However, medicine was not the sole factor
responsible for these changes. The surge of interest in preventive
medicine received new impetus from the development of the print
industry. Moreover, it was fuelled by classical notions of
wellbeing, re-proposed by humanist culture and by the new interest
in geography and climates. Broader social and religious trends also
played a key role; most significantly, the nexus between attention
to one's health and spiritual and moral worth promoted both by new
ideas of what constituted nobility and by the Counter-Reformation.
Six key areas were thought to influence the balance of 'humours'
within the body and Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy is
organised into six main chapters which reflect these concerns: Air,
Exercise, Sleep, Food and Drink, Managing the Emotions, and Bodily
Hygiene. The volume is richly illustrated, and offers an accessible
but fascinating glimpse into both the domestic lives and health
preoccupations of the early modern Italians.
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