Healthy living in late Renaissance Italy / Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

First edition.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print and culture of prevention -- Practices of healthy living : the sources -- Worrying about the air -- A good night's sleep -- Gentle exercise and genteel living -- The well-tempered man -- "Salute!" (cheers!) : drinking to your health -- Excretions as excrements : the hygiene of the body.