Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One A Sound Mind in a Healthy Body
Galen
Petrarch
Ficino and Zerbi
Cornaro
Erasmus
Montaigne
Conclusion
Chapter Two The Circulation of Power and Knowledge
Petrarch
Castiglione
Montaigne
Conclusion
Chapter Three Love in Old Age
Petrarch
Ronsard
Montaigne
Pasquier
Conclusion
Chapter Four Then and Now
The Care of the Aging Self
Erasmus’s Colloquium “The Old Men’s Chat”
A Way of Life and a Mode of Discourse: The Case of Montaigne
In Vino Veritas
Bibliography
Index
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