Savoring Power, Consuming the Times

Pina Palma’s Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature is an innovative look at the writings of five important Italian authors—Boccaccio’s Decameron , Pulci’s Morgante , Boiardo’s Innamorato , Ariosto’s Furioso , and Aretino’s Ragionamento . Through the prism of gastronomy, Palma examines these key works in the Western literary canon, bringing into focus how their authors use food and gastronomy as a means to critique the social, po