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Colbertaldo, Roberta, "The Court and the Gut: A Study of Carnival and Lent Representations in Giulio Cesare Croce's Work", Food & History, 21/1 [= Fat Worlds. Feasters and Loafers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Gourmands et fainéants dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne, ed. Colbertaldo, Roberta - Ott, Christine] (2023), 75-98.

Resum

In this article I aim to outline the peculiarity of Giulio Cesare Croce's adaptation of literary sources and to explain the contradictions in his carnivalesque depictions of greasy food and immoral behaviour: although they portray entertainment and leisure, they also criticize and condemn deviation from the norm. In particular, I reconsider how the Bolognese storyteller represents Carnival's festivities and their unavoidable end as Lent approaches. My analysis delves into the functions of Croce's popular and cultivated references in relation to his extensive descriptions of food provisions. Hence, I wish to shift the focus from the dichotomy between high and low literature to the intertwining of the material aspects of the diets of Carnival and Lent and their symbolic value.

Matèries

Alimentació
Religió
Cuina i confiteria
Història de la literatura

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