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Vasari, Giorgio, 310 Venice and Ferrara, war between, 194–95, 377n39 Venus, 60 Vergerio, Pier Paolo, 227, 355n46, 362n10 Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio, 345n48 vineyards in Renaissance culture, 286–92 virtue and pleasure, Stoic/Epicurean debate between, 101–4 La vita di Giovanni de’ Medici detto delle Bande Nere (Giovangirolamo De’ Rossi), 372n10 Vita nuova (Dante), 27–29 Vitruvius, Pollio, 2–4, 131–33, 322n14, 348n86 women. See gender issues Zorzi, Elvira Garbero, 350n4 428 Index   is professor of Italian at Southern Connecticut State University. THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 undpress.nd.edu o t d o o f f o r o h p a t e m l a r t n e c e h t d e s u s a h a m l a P a n i P , t i w d n a y t i r a l c h t i W “ uncover unexpectedly fresh dimensions of Renaissance intellectual traditions. Her fascinating and original exploration of the connections between food and sexuality, political power, moral hypocrisy, ascetic discipline of the body, and the world of the appetites in a selection of key Italian Renaissance works is sure to engage historians as well as literary scholars.” —GIUSEPPE MAZZOTTA, YALE UNIVERSITY l a v e i d e m n a i l a t I f o s k r o w r o j a m e h t f o e m o s s e n i m a x e e m u l o v t n e l l e c x e s i h T “ and Renaissance literature from the perspective of their references to food (in its various categories) and can even be of interest to non-Italianists for the insights and information it provides for other geographical areas and literatures in late-medieval/early-modern Europe.” —KONRAD EISENBICHLER, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO s e m i T e h t g n i m u s n o C , r e w o P g n i r o v a S “ is not simply a book about food in Italian literature. It is a subtle and far-reaching work of criticism, which discloses an original aspect of the Renaissance. Not only does food provide a way of accessing a privileged perspective on the Renaissance religious, philosophical, and moral thinking; but it is also the perfect means of building an unexpected web of relationships between authors.” —SALVATORE SILVANO NIGRO, LIBERA UNIVERSITÀ DI LINGUE E COMUNICAZIONE, IULM PINA PALMA IS PROFESSOR OF ITALIAN AT SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY. ...

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