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Dante's gluttons : food and society from the Convivio to the Comedy / Danielle Callegari.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Food culture, food history before 1900Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022Description: 1 online resource (194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048550036 (ebook)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 851.1 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4432.F66 C35 2022
Online resources: Summary: <i>Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy</i> explores how, in his work, medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to articulate, reinforce, criticize, and correct the social, political, and cultural values of his time. Combining medieval history, food studies, and literary criticism, <i>Dante's Gluttons</i> historicizes food and eating in Dante, beginning in his earliest collected poetry and arriving at the end of his major work. For Dante, the consumption of food is not a frivolity, but a crux of life in the most profound sense of the term, and gluttony is the abdication of civic and spiritual responsibility and a danger to the individual body and soul as well as to the collective. This book establishes how one of the world's preeminent authors uses the intimacy and universality of food as a touchstone, communicating through a gastronomic language rooted in the deeply human relationship with material sustenance.
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<i>Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy</i> explores how, in his work, medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to articulate, reinforce, criticize, and correct the social, political, and cultural values of his time. Combining medieval history, food studies, and literary criticism, <i>Dante's Gluttons</i> historicizes food and eating in Dante, beginning in his earliest collected poetry and arriving at the end of his major work. For Dante, the consumption of food is not a frivolity, but a crux of life in the most profound sense of the term, and gluttony is the abdication of civic and spiritual responsibility and a danger to the individual body and soul as well as to the collective. This book establishes how one of the world's preeminent authors uses the intimacy and universality of food as a touchstone, communicating through a gastronomic language rooted in the deeply human relationship with material sustenance.

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