02420nam 2200601Ia 450 991081245280332120240418020645.00-268-08972-8(CKB)3170000000060164(EBL)3441128(SSID)ssj0000860788(PQKBManifestationID)11503672(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860788(PQKBWorkID)10914087(PQKB)11680032(MiAaPQ)EBC3441128(OCoLC)843860359(MdBmJHUP)muse23226(Au-PeEL)EBL3441128(CaPaEBR)ebr10687031(EXLCZ)99317000000006016420130201d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSavoring power, consuming the times[electronic resource] the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature /Pina Palma1st ed.Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Pressc20131 online resource (442 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-268-03839-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Pina Palma uses the central metaphor of food to uncover unexpectedly fresh dimensions of Renaissance intellectual traditions.Food in literatureGastronomy in literatureItalian literature16th centuryHistory and criticismItalian literatureTo 1400History and criticismFood in literature.Gastronomy in literature.Italian literatureHistory and criticism.Italian literatureHistory and criticism.850.9/3564Palma Pina1651959MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812452803321Savoring power, consuming the times4002274UNINA