TY - BOOK AU - Palma,Pina ED - Project Muse. TI - Savoring power, consuming the times: the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature SN - 9780268089726 AV - PQ4053.F58 P36 2013 U1 - 850.9/3564 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Notre Dame, Ind. PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Gastronomy in literature KW - Food in literature KW - Italian literature KW - 16th century KW - History and criticism KW - To 1400 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780268089726/ ER -