| Title: | Muliebre polenta. Divagazioni linguistiche e letterarie attorno ad un «Cibus Vilissimus». (Parte Prima) |
| Author: | Emilio Manzotti |
| Publication: | Diversité et identité culturelle en Europe, XIII (2), p. 19 |
| p-ISSN: | 2067-0931 |
| Publisher: | Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | The Author presents here the first instalment of a broader study on the literary and cultural history of the polenta: a «staple in Northern Italian cuisine» (en.wikipedia.org), once «cibus vilissimus» according to the venerable Latin dictionary of E. Forcellini. The second half of the Settecento shows an interesting ongoing change in the social and ‘gastronomic’ status of the polenta, witnessed for instance in the successful scherzo ditirambico (1st ed. 1791) of the Venetian doctor and amateur poet Lodovico Pastò (1744-1806), which is here at some length presented and analysed. The last section reviews and discusses several other works, both technical (scientific and popular) and literary of the rich production about maize and polenta between eighteenth and nineteenth century. |
| Key words: | Italian (and Venetian) literature, burlesque dithyrambic poetry, Lodovico Pastò; history of agriculture, food history, maize, Antoine Parmentier |
| Language: | Italian |
| Links: |  pdf |
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