|
Showing 1 - 2 of
2 matches in All Departments
Alvise Cornaro (c.1484-1566) was the son of a Paduan innkeeper with
presumed ties to the patrician Cornaro family of Venice. Highly
ambitious, he acquired a name for himself as a businessman,
architect, and patron of the arts. Critically ill around age 40 -
likely with diabetes and gout - he resolved to abandon his
intemperate lifestyle. The strict rules regarding food and drink
that he adopted and which led to his recovery are outlined in his
most famous treatise, the Vita Sobria (1558). The work, which
featured prescriptions for living to 100 years - stressing healthy
lifestyle, proper diet, and avoidance of excess -became an
international success. This edition offers the most comprehensive
and faithful version of this early modern classic ever available in
English, and includes Cornaro's Aggionta ("Addition"), translated
here for the first time. An introductory essay by the late Marisa
Milani offers biographical background and analysis and discusses
the work's publication history. The volume also presents letters by
Cornaro's contemporaries commenting on the treatise as well as his
Eulogy, now viewed as having been written by Cornaro himself. A
foreword by award-winning health journalist Greg Critser speaks to
the continuing relevance of Cornaro's fascinating and seminal work.
Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) was among the most important of those
philosophers of the twentieth century who grappled with issues of
pure aesthetics. The series of lectures written in 1912 as the
inaugural address of the Rice Institute in Texas and collected
under the title Breviario di estetica (Breviary of Aesthetics) is
undoubtedly Croce's definitive study of the arts, and the work
remains foundational in the philosophy of aesthetics to this day.
It has been translated into several languages and continues to
attract a wide readership. In this edition, the Breviary of
Aesthetics is presented in a brand new English translation and
accompanied by informative endnotes that discuss many of the
philosophers, writers, and works cited by Croce in his original
text. The new translation deliberately preserves the idiosyncratic
use of language for which Croce was famous, and emphasizes his
writing style, which, together with that of Galileo Galilei, is
considered to be among the most lucid in Italian literature. An
introduction by Remo Bodei discusses the broader impact of the work
and places it in historical context. In short, this edition
reintroduces a seminal text on aesthetics to a new generation of
English-speaking readers, and represents a significant contribution
to the Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library series.
|
You may like...
Gloria
Sam Smith
CD
R238
R195
Discovery Miles 1 950
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.