1st Edition
Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy The Renaissance of Taste
By Laura Giannetti
Copyright 2022
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto / taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended with traditional social values, morality, and dietetic/medical discourse. Exploring the complex and evocative ways the early modern Italian culture of food was imagined in the literature of the... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning, 2. Sixteenth-Century Food Wars, 3. Attending Poetic Banquets, 4. Femininity and Food Culture in Renaissance Italy, Index'
Biography
Laura Giannetti, University of Miami Emerita, Independent Scholar. She co-translated and edited with Guido Ruggiero Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University Press) in 2003. In 2009 her monograph, Lelia’s Kiss: Imagining Gender, Sex and Marriage in Italian Renaissance Comedy was published by Toronto University Press.
