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Dante's Gluttons - Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy (Hardcover)
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Dante's Gluttons - Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy (Hardcover)
Series: Food Culture, Food History before 1900
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Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy
explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
uses food to express and condition 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, and gluttony is the
abdication of civic and spiritual responsibility and a danger to
both the individual body and soul, as well as the greater
collective. This book establishes how one of the world's preeminent
authors uses the intimacy and universality of food as a touchstone,
forging a community bound by a gastronomic language rooted in the
deeply human relationship with material sustenance.
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