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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:
  • 9780268089726
  • 0268089728
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 850.9/3564 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4053.F58 P36 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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