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Savoring power, consuming the times : the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Palma, Pina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Italian literature > To 1400 > History and criticism.
Italian literature > 16th century > History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Gastronomy in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: taste and see the power of food
  • The language of food in Boccaccio's Decameron
  • Of frogs, giants, and the court: Pulci's Morgante
  • Banquets of power: Boiardo's Innamorato and the politics of gastronomy
  • Meals, transformations, and the belly of history: Ariosto's Furioso
  • Courtesans and figs, art and nature in Aretino's Ragionamento
  • Conclusion.