Free shipping on all orders over $79* Limited Time Only
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Dante's Gluttons : Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy - Danielle Callegari

Dante's Gluttons

Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy

By: Danielle Callegari

eBook | 1 October 2025

At a Glance

eBook

$96.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $24.25 with

 or 

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time. Combining medieval history, food studies, and literary criticism, Dante's Gluttons historicizes food and eating in Dante, beginning in his earliest collected poetry and arriving at the end of his major work. For Dante, the consumption of food is not a frivolity, but a crux of life, and gluttony is the abdication of civic and spiritual responsibility and a danger to both the individual body and soul, as well as the greater collective. This book establishes how one of the world's preeminent authors uses the intimacy and universality of food as a touchstone, forging a community bound by a gastronomic language rooted in the deeply human relationship with material sustenance.

on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionHistoryRegional & National HistoryEuropean HistoryLiterature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of LiteratureGeneral Literary StudiesClassical Literary StudiesSociology & AnthropologySociologySociology & Customs & TraditionsEarliest Times to Present Day
Early History from 500 to 1500Medieval HistoryMedicineMedicine in GeneralMedical SociologySociety & CultureCultural StudiesFood & SocietyGeneral & World History

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Published: 1st December 2025

View Product

More in European History

The Campaigns of Napoleon - David G. Chandler

eBOOK

The Campaigns of Napoleon

eBook

$89.99

Napoleon : A Political Life - Steven Englund

eBOOK

Napoleon

A Political Life

eBook

$27.99

Black Death - Robert S. Gottfried

eBOOK

Black Death

eBook

$16.99

Men of Mathematics - E.T. Bell

eBOOK

Men of Mathematics

eBook

$9.99

A Short History of World War I : Short History - James L. Stokesbury

eBOOK

A Short History of World War I

Short History

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.99

19%
OFF

This product is categorised by