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

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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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Giannetti, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
Series:Food Culture, Food History Before 1900
Subjects:
Food habits > Italy > History.
Food > Italy > History.
Habitudes alimentaires > Italie > Histoire.
Aliments > Italie > Histoire.
Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800.
Food and Society.
HISTORY / Europe / Italy.
Food
Food habits
Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600.
Cultural studies: food and society.
European history: Renaissance.
Italy
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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

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