The Food and the Laugh
Subtitle: The Representation of Nutrition in the XVI Century European Literature. Some Study Notes
Publisher: Teatro Vocali Edizioni
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Castellazzo Bormida (AL), Italy
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 58
Description: Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, The Food and the Laugh. The Representation of Nutrition in the XVI Century European Literature. Some Study Notes, International University of Pollenzo - UNISG, Teatro Vocali Edizioni (Collana "Fiori di Cactus" - Special Issue -, ISSN 2240-7782), Castellazzo Bormida 2012

This work is the integrative handbook, designed as a lecture notes compendium,  inherent in the Author's Master Course in Comparative Literature (The Food and the Laugh. The Representation of Food and Nutrition in the Italian and European Literature between XIII and XVII Centuries. An Exercise in Comparative Literature) - Academic Year 2012-2013 - at the International University of Pollenzo (UNISG), Pollenzo, Italy. The booklet discusses some of the main subjects related to the theme of the Representation of Food and Nutrition in the European Literature between XIII and XVII centuries. The structure of this work is that of an essay and it is divided into three parts concerning, in the first two chapters, the theme of the "Food Literature" through the analysis of the Rabelais's chef-d'oeuvre (in particular of the Fourth Book of "Gargantua et Pantagruel") and of the almost archetypal "figure" of the banquet in the work of the French Author and, in the third chapter, of the development of satirical and burlesque poetry in Italy in the XV century, with particular attention on the literary personalities of the poets Domenico di Giovanni, better known as "il Burchiello", and Francesco Berni. Then are made available to the readers some brief biographical notes relating to the most important Authors of the burlesque and parodic literary genre in the European Literature of the period under review, il Burchiello, Luigi Pulci, Theophilus Folengo, François Rabelais and Francesco Berni.
Table of contents: title: 2
label: Foreword; title: 2
label: I. The Literature of Food; title: 2
label: I.1 The Rabelais's Quart Livre. Gaster and Gastronomy; title: 14
label: I.2 Recipes and foods examples (list) from Meat-day menu (IV, LIX, excerpts); title: 15
label: I.3 Recipes and foods examples (list) from Meatless-day menu (IV, LX); title: 16
label: II. The Banquet in Rabelais; title: 25
label: III. Notes Inherent in the Burlesque Sonnet Tradition in Italy; title: 25
label: III.1 The Comic-Realistic Poets of the Thirteenth to Early Fourteenth Century; title: 33
label: III.2 Bourgeois Poets of the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century; title: 36
label: III.3 The Burchiello and the Burchiellesque Verse in the Fifteenth Century; title: 41
label: III.4 Francesco Berni and the Burlesque Sonnet in the Sixteenth Century; title: 48
label: Biographical Notes; title: 56
label: Bibliography