Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789463720427)

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.

Author: Danielle Callegari
ISBN-10: 9463720421
ISBN-13: 9789463720427
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/11/2022
Pages: 194
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d