Author: Giuseppe Marco Antonio BarettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy
Author: Giuseppe Marco Antonio BarettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy
Author: Giuseppe Marco Antonio BarettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Italian Cuisine
Author: Alberto CapattiPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231509049
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Italy, the country with a hundred cities and a thousand bell towers, is also the country with a hundred cuisines and a thousand recipes. Its great variety of culinary practices reflects a history long dominated by regionalism and political division, and has led to the common conception of Italian food as a mosaic of regional customs rather than a single tradition. Nonetheless, this magnificent new book demonstrates the development of a distinctive, unified culinary tradition throughout the Italian peninsula. Alberto Capatti and Massimo Montanari uncover a network of culinary customs, food lore, and cooking practices, dating back as far as the Middle Ages, that are identifiably Italian: o Italians used forks 300 years before other Europeans, possibly because they were needed to handle pasta, which is slippery and dangerously hot. o Italians invented the practice of chilling drinks and may have invented ice cream. o Italian culinary practice influenced the rest of Europe to place more emphasis on vegetables and less on meat. o Salad was a distinctive aspect of the Italian meal as early as the sixteenth century. The authors focus on culinary developments in the late medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras, aided by a wealth of cookbooks produced throughout the early modern period. They show how Italy's culinary identities emerged over the course of the centuries through an exchange of information and techniques among geographical regions and social classes. Though temporally, spatially, and socially diverse, these cuisines refer to a common experience that can be described as Italian. Thematically organized around key issues in culinary history and beautifully illustrated, Italian Cuisine is a rich history of the ingredients, dishes, techniques, and social customs behind the Italian food we know and love today.
The Book of the Courtier: A Historic Guide to Manners and Etiquette in the Royal Courts of Renaissance Europe
Author: Baldassare CastiglionePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781387895397
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione's classic account of Renaissance court life, offers profound insight into the refined behavior which defined the era's ruling class. The courtly customs and manners of Italy to a great extent characterized the Renaissance, which elevated art and expression to new heights. Baldassare Castiglione published this book with the intention of chronicling the manners, customs and traditions which underpinned how courtiers, nobles, and their servants, behaved. Although ostensibly a book of etiquette and good conduct, Castiglione's treatise carries enormous historical value. He derived his observations directly from the many gatherings and receptions conducted by society's elite. Conversations with the officials, diplomats and nobility of the era further enhanced the accuracy of this book, imbuing it with an authenticity seldom seen elsewhere.
Italians
Author: Luigi BarziniPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684825007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Examines the character and history of the Italian people.
Galateo
Author: Giovanni Della CasaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carving (Meat, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Courtesy book, specifically intended for children. First appears in Italian in 1558.
The Renaissance in Italy
Author: Guido RuggieroPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521895200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence, and sexuality. The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar, yet alien; pre-modern, but suggestively post-modern; attractive and troubling, this book returns the Italian Renaissance to center stage in our past and in our historical analysis.
An account of the manners and customs of Italy; with observations on the mistakes of some travellers, with regard to that country
Author: Giuseppe Marc'Antonio BARETTIPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Author: Joseph Baretti
Author: Samuel Sharp