LUIGI (1466-1566), a Venetian nobleman, famous for his treatises on a sober life. From some dishonesty on the part of his relations he was deprived of his rank, and induced to retire to Padua, where he acquired the experience in regard to food and regimen which he has detailed in his works. In his youth he was of a delicate constitution, and had nearly fallen a victim to his intemperance, when by the advice of his physicians he subjected himself to a severe regimen. He restricted himself to a daily allowance of twelve ounces of solid and fourteen ounces of liquid food; and so much habituated did he become to this simple diet, that when he was above seventy years of age the addition by way of experiment of two ounces a-day had nearly proved fatal. At the age of eighty-three he wrote his treatise on The sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthy life; and this was followed by three others on the same subject, composed at the ages of eighty-six, ninety-one, and ninety-five, respectively. They are written, says Addison (Spectator, No. 195), "with such a spirit of cheerfulness, religion, and good sense, as are the natural concomitants of temperance and sobriety." An English translation of Cornaro's work reached its thirty-ninth edition in 1845.