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 the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time

List of contents

Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Dante's Gluttony, 2. Convivial Gluttony, 3. Infernal Gluttony, 4. Purgatorial Gluttony, 5. Heavenly Gluttony, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

About the author

Danielle Callegari is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College and Councilor of the Dante Society of America. Her teaching and research focuses on premodern Italian literature and food and wine studies. She has published on a variety of subjects including Dante, medieval food and wine culture, early modern women's writing and religion, and modern Italian food and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Danielle Callegari, Dr. Danielle Callegari
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9789463720427
• ISBN: 978-94-63-72042-7
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Food Culture, Food History before 1900; Amsterdam University Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories