(Lewis), a Venetian of noble extraction, memorable for having lived healthful and active to above 100 years of age by a rigid course of temperance. By the ill conduct of some of his relations he was deprived of the dignity of a noble Venetian; and seeing himself excluded from all employments under the republic, he settled at Padua. In his youth, he was of a weak constitution; and by irregular indulgence reduced himself, at about 40 years of age, to the brink of the grave, under a complication of disorders; at which extremity he was told that he had no other chance for his life, but by becoming sober and temperate. Being wise enough to adopt this wholesome counsel, he reduced himself to a regimen of which there are very few examples. He allowed himself no more than 12 ounces of food and 14 ounces of liquor each day; which became so habitual to him, that when he was above 70 years of age, the experiment of adding two ounces to each by the advice of his friends, had like to have proved fatal to him. At 83, he wrote a treatise which has been translated into English, and often printed, intitled, Sure and certain Methods of attaining a Long and Healthful Life, in which he relates his own story, and extols temperance to a degree of enthusiasm. At length, the yolks of an egg became sufficient for a meal, and sometimes for two, until he died with much ease and composure in 1566. The writer of the Spectator, no. 195, confirms the fact from the authority of the Venetian ambassador at that time, who was a descendant of the Cornaro family.