# The Frugal Life: A Paradox

Author: Landi, Ortensio, 1512?-1553?; Axon, William E. A. (William Edward Armytage), 1846-1913 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68053

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Frugal+Life%3A+A+Paradox+Landi&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The friendship of Nicholas Ferrar, the head of the remarkable household at Little Gidding, and of the saintly George Herbert, is a pleasant episode of seventeenth century history. One of its results was the appearance at Cambridge in 1634 of a little volume, entitled “Hygiasticon.” This contains a translation, believed to be by Ferrar, of the treatise on dietetics by the learned Jesuit, Leonard Lessius, George Herbert’s version of Luigi Cornaro’s book on Long Life, and “A discourse translated out of Italian that a spare diet is better than a splendid and sumptuous.” This version was made by one whose initials, T.S., have not been deciphered. The name of the original author was equally unk...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-frugal-life-a-paradox-68053/chapters/1/index.md)