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Darrera modificació: 2023-11-14
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Ott, Christine, "Fat Carnival Princess in Renaissance Rome Luigi Pulci's Political Misogyny", 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), 159-172.
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- There is no such thing as a fat princess in Luigi Pulci's mock-heroic poem Il Morgante. The women there are generally slender and beautiful according to the petrarquesque canon. The fat ones are men: paladins eat like pigs, while the giants devour animals of incredible sizes. In a letter Pulci wrote to his patron Lorenzo de' Medici, however, we find the shocking description of a fat lady. Using an extremely aggressive register, Pulci represents this princess as a carnival figure, a mountain of grease, a fat pig. His fantasy draws liberally from the stock of images Bakhtin used to describe the carnivalesque popular culture. In this article, I aim to explore the possible political motivations of Pulci's aggressive description. I also aim to highlight the gender-specific differences between the literary presentation of male giants and the epistolary representation of a fat princess.
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- https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.FOO ...
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