Savoring power, consuming the times
Palma, Pina.
Savoring power, consuming the times the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature / [electronic resource] : Pina Palma. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
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.
9780268089726 0268089728
Gastronomy in literature.
Food in literature.
Italian literature--History and criticism.--16th century
Italian literature--History and criticism--To 1400
Electronic books.
PQ4053.F58 / P36 2013
850.9/3564
Savoring power, consuming the times the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature / [electronic resource] : Pina Palma. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
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.
9780268089726 0268089728
Gastronomy in literature.
Food in literature.
Italian literature--History and criticism.--16th century
Italian literature--History and criticism--To 1400
Electronic books.
PQ4053.F58 / P36 2013
850.9/3564