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Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy: The Renaissance of Taste

Laura Giannetti

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Exploring the ways the early modern Italian culture of food was imagined in the literature of the time, this text reveals that while a moral and disciplinary vision tried to control the discourse on food and eating in medical and dietetic treatises of the 16th century and prescriptive literature.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Dec 1st, 2025
  • Pages: 260
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.55in - 0.82lb
  • EAN: 9781041179535
  • Categories: • Europe - Italy• European - Italian• Renaissance

About the Author

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.