Sandra Cavallo, Professor of Early Modern History, Royal Holloway, and Tessa Storey, Research Associate, Royal Holloway, University of London

Tessa Storey is a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2009, she has been working as a research associate on the Wellcome funded research project which has made this book possible. She has published a number of chapters and articles on early modern Rome, as well as a book, Carnal Commerce in Counter Reformation Rome (2008).

Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London and specialises in the history of medicine, gender and material culture. Her publications include the books Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy (1995) and Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, Masculinities (2007), and the edited volumes Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1999), Spaces, Objects, and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine (2008), Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe (2009) and A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family vol. 3, The Early Modern Age (2010).

Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize for History 2014

"the book provides a fascinating and incomparably rich and nuanced contribution to our knowledge of the pursuit of health in the domestic environment, in the process instilling meaning and functionality into the everyday objects of the time." - David Gentilcore, History Today

"excellent, meticulously researched, and informative ... a terrific, scholarly book." - Douglas Biow, American Historical Review

"This book deserves a wide readership. Its imaginative research, rigorous arguments and robust engagement with scholarship will provoke the interest of specialists, and the clarity of the exposition will make it essential reading for students." - Alexandra Bamji, English Historical Review

"Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy addresses an important theme overlooked in recent studies of the history of Renaissance medicine, which tend to stress the demands of the marketplace and a culture of curing rather than of prevention. Cavallo and Storey's exhaustively researched book treats the reader to a wealth of fascinating details about everyday life in early modern Italy, from architecture and interior design to sport and exercise. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role of the popular press in inculcating a sense of empowerment over deeply personal matters. It also reminds us of the enduring relevance of the classical tradition." - William Eamon, Bulletin of the History of Medicine

"Cavallo and Storey's important book ought to be obligatory reading for anyone interested in the history of medicine in early modern Italy. It will also generously reward other readers seeking to benefit from its bounty of illuminating insights pertaining to art history, gender studies, and social history." - Sheila Barker, CAA Reviews