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Savoring power, consuming the times : the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature / Pina Palma.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palma, Pina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food in literature.
- Gastronomy in literature.
- Italian literature--16th century--History and criticism.
- Italian literature.
- Italian literature--To 1400--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pina Palma uses the central metaphor of food to uncover unexpectedly fresh dimensions of Renaissance intellectual traditions.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268089726
- 0268089728
- OCLC:
- 843860359
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