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- Title
PER UNA TIPOLOGIA DEL DISCORSO SUL CIBO NEL DECAMERON.
- Authors
Dardano, Maurizio
- Abstract
In the narrative framework of the Decameron, banquets take on stylized forms as if they followed a codified ritual: there are intervals of music playing, singing and dancing. On the other hand, the tales offer a variety of eating modes, associated to various private and public situations. We have food consumption as a high-class show. a frugal meal, a necessary event, an imaginary scene (Cockaigne), and a medicine for good health. Moreover, food is occasionally related to sexual and even sadistic scenes. Each of these situations has its own stylistic, pragmatic and textual features, which are analyzed in the paper also through a comparison of Boccaccio's writing with other late Latin and Romance narrative texts (i.e. Coena Cipriani, Marguerite's Navarra Heptameron, French fabliaux and Italian tales by Sercambi and Saechetti). The stylistic and textual investigation attempts to provide a better understanding of the anthropological and symbolic perspective of medieval food consumption.
- Subjects
MEALS in literature; ROMANCE language literature; TALE (Literary form); HUMAN sexuality in literature; LATIN literature; FOOD in literature
- Publication
Immagine Riflessa, 2009, Vol 18, Issue 1/2, p199
- ISSN
0391-2973
- Publication type
Article