Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Note on the Translation xxvii
5. Acknowledgments xxxi
6. Introduction to Cornaro 1
7. Letter to Bishop Cornelio Musso by Bernardino Tomitano 72
8. A Treatise on the Sober Life by the Magnificent Messer Luigi Cornaro,6 Noble Venetian 75
9. Addition to the Treatise on the Sober Life by Messer Alvise Cornaro 102
10. A Brief Compendium of The Sober Life by Alvise Cornaro With Many Things Added, Especially Useful and Necessary for Those Who Are Old 107
11. Letter Written by the Magnificent Alvise Cornaro to the Most Reverend Barbaro, Patriarch Elect of Aquileia 117
12. A Loving Exhortation by the Magnificent Messer Alvise Cornaro 124
13. Eulogy for Alvise Cornaro 131
14. Selected Letters 140
15. How to Attain Immortality Living One Hundred Years, or, The Fortune of the Vita Sobria in the Anglo-Saxon World 183
16. Selected Terminology 214
17. Bibliography 223
18. Index 229