Savoring power, consuming the times [electronic resource] : the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature / Pina Palma.
Material type: TextPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780268089726
- 0268089728
- 850.9/3564 23
- PQ4053.F58 P36 2013
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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