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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812452803321

Autore

Palma Pina

Titolo

Savoring power, consuming the times [[electronic resource] ] : the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature / / Pina Palma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2013

ISBN

0-268-08972-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (442 p.)

Disciplina

850.9/3564

Soggetti

Food in literature

Gastronomy in literature

Italian literature - 16th century - History and criticism

Italian literature - To 1400 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Pina Palma uses the central metaphor of food to uncover unexpectedly fresh dimensions of Renaissance intellectual traditions.