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Author(s): Danielle Callegari Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 9463720421   Pages: 194 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: maveriks Upload Date: 9/14/2023 5:46:33 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description Dantes 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, Dantes 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 worlds 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. Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3201305 Book https://rapidgator.net/file/84db231472ec...   0.00 maveriks Tags: Comedy Convivio Culture Dante Food Food Food Gluttons History Society Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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