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Hardcover How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing Book

ISBN: 0691192146

ISBN13: 9780691192147

How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing

(Part of the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series)

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A spirited new translation of a forgotten classic, shot through with timeless wisdom

Is there an art to drinking alcohol? Can drinking ever be a virtue? The Renaissance humanist and neoclassical poet Vincent Obsopoeus (ca. 1498-1539) thought so. In the winelands of sixteenth-century Germany, he witnessed the birth of a poisonous new culture of bingeing, hazing, peer pressure, and competitive drinking. Alarmed, and inspired by the...

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