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1 online resource (193 pages)
ISBN:
9781487515768
Serie:
Toronto Italian Studies
Inhalt:
Through close readings of key texts, including spiritual writings, fairy tales, and a botanical treatise, Golden Fruit examines the role of oranges in Italian culture from their introduction during the medieval period through to the present day
Inhalt:
Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Peel an Orange -- 1 Fruit of the Spirit: Health, Salvation, and Catherine of Sienaâs Candied Oranges -- The Ambivalent Status of Early Modern Fruit -- Holy People and the Introduction of Oranges in Europe -- Sweet and Bitter Flavours in Catherineâs Orange Letter -- Catherineâs Recipe for Candying and for Holiness -- 2 The Fruit of Love: Citrus Symbolism in Pontano and Basile -- Oranges as Symbols of Love in Renaissance Culture -- Pontanoâs De hortis Hesperidum and the Praise of Campania -- Women and Fruit in Basileâs âThe Three Citronsâ -- Citrus Fruit and the Literary Dignity of Fairy Tales -- 3 The Fruit of the Womb: Ferrariâs Maternal Images of Citrus -- Pregnancy and Metamorphosis in Botany and Literature -- Fruit, Women, and Monsters in Early Modern Europe -- The Classification of Citrus Monsters in Hesperides -- Ferrariâs Citrus Myths of Origin -- 4 Strange Fruit: Violence and the Sacred in the Economy of Citrus -- Oranges and Wealth in Early Modern Times -- The Ambivalent Value of Oranges in Sicilian Folklore -- Sacred Oranges and Immigrant Stories -- Violence and the Sacred Oranges of Rosarno -- Conclusion: The Colour of the Golden Fruit -- Appendix: A Chronology of Oranges -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Colour plates follow page 86
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 22, 2018)
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ISBN 9781487502669
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mazzoni, Cristina, 1965 - Golden fruit Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018 ISBN 9781487502669
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ISBN 1487502664
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Print version Mazzoni, Christina Golden Fruit : A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2018 ISBN 9781487502669
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Romanistik
Schlagwort(e):
Italien
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Orange
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Geschichte
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