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Savoring Power, Consuming the Times : The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature /
This book looks at the writings of five important Italian authors - Boccaccio's Decameron, Pulci's Morgante, Boiardo's Innamorato, Ariosto's Furioso, and Aretino's Ragionamento. Through the prism of gastronomy, the author examines these key works in the Western literary cano...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2013]
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a This book looks at the writings of five important Italian authors - Boccaccio's Decameron, Pulci's Morgante, Boiardo's Innamorato, Ariosto's Furioso, and Aretino's Ragionamento. Through the prism of gastronomy, the author examines these key works in the Western literary canon, bringing into focus how their authors use food and gastronomy as a means to critique the social, political, theological, philosophical, and cultural beliefs that constitute the fabric of the society in which they live. The author begins with the anthropological principle that food represents the universal transformation of nature into culture and that it functions as a language that distinguishes every society and its culture from others. This suggests that food - its preparation, presentation, and consumption - is more than merely a source of nourishment. Rather, the author argues, foodstuffs function as ethical and aesthetic instruments through which the literary hero's virtues and flaws, achievements and failures, can be gauged. Food also serves as a means to maintain, as well as to negotiate, power, social hierarchy, and relationships between the powerful and the powerless. Touching on three centuries that were pivotal for Italian culture, literature, and history, as well as three literary genres, the author's analysis connects the descriptions and references to food found in these works with the wider culture of Italy in the late medieval and early modern period. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Italian literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00980660 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Gastronomy in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00938907 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Food in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00930837 | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Gastronomie dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Aliments dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Litterature italienne |y 16e siecle |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Litterature italienne |y Jusqu'à 1400 |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Gastronomy in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Food in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Italian literature |y 16th century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Italian literature |y To 1400 |x History and criticism. | |
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