Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy

Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy 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 studi...

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Main Author: Callegari, Danielle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2022]
Series:Food Culture, Food History before 1900 2
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy
Summary:Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy 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, Dante's Gluttons 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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
Physical Description:1 online resource (194 pages)
ISBN:9789048550036
DOI:10.1515/9789048550036