Food culture and literary imagination in early modern Italy : the Renaissance of taste / Laura Giannetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giannetti, Laura, author.

Series:

Food culture, food history before 1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--16th century--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Food in literature.

Gastronomy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

Summary:

As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto/taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended with traditional social values, morality, and dietetic/medical discourse. Exploring the complex and evocative ways the early modern Italian culture of food was imagined in the literature of the time, Food Culture and the Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy reveals that while a moral and disciplinary vision tried to control the discourse on food and eating in medical and dietetic treatises of the sixteenth century and prescriptive literature, a wide range of literary works contributed to a revolution in eating and taste. In the process long held visions of food and eating, as related to social order and hierarchy, medicine, sexuality and gender, religion and morality, pleasure and the senses, were questioned, tested and overturned, and eating and its pleasures would never be the same.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning

2. Sixteenth-Century Food Wars

3. Attending Poetic Banquets

4. Femininity and Food Culture in Renaissance Italy

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Giannetti, Laura Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy

ISBN:

9789048552023

9048552028

OCLC:

1296582578