Golden fruit : a cultural history of oranges in Italy
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書誌事項
Golden fruit : a cultural history of oranges in Italy
(Toronto Italian studies)
University of Toronto Press, 2018
- : cloth
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  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
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  オランダ
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-186) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Through a close reading of key texts, including poetic and 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. Featuring a beautiful full-colour spread, Cristina Mazzoni's book brings together artistic depictions, literary analysis, historical context, and popular culture to investigate the changing representations of the orange over time and across the Italian peninsula.
Oranges were introduced to Italy in the 1200s, many centuries after beloved Mediterranean fruits such as grapes, figs, and pomegranates-all well-known since Antiquity. Not burdened with age-old meanings and symbolism, then, oranges in early modern times provided a malleable image for artists, writers, and scientists alike. Thus, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, oranges appear in visual and verbal representations as an effective aid in physical and spiritual health, as symbols of romantic and of divine love, and as signs of geographic allegiance to one's citrus-rich land. Baroque poets, botanists, and painters regularly compared oranges to women for their shared hybrid nature, whereas later folklore presented this dual character of oranges from an economic standpoint, as both precious and dangerous. The violence intrinsic to oranges in these Sicilian texts from the eighteen and nineteen hundreds returns in the controversial representations of the orange harvest in early twenty-first century Italy.
目次
Introduction: How to Peel an Orange
1. Bread and oranges
2. How to Peel an Orange
3. Of Beauty and Citrons
4. Boy Peeling Fruit
5. One Thousand Orange Shirts
6. The Golden Fruit
Chapter One: Fruit of the Spirit
1. Divine Oranges
2. One Pope's Melons...
3. ... And Another Pope's Oranges
4. Rome's First Orange Tree
5. Catherine's Orange Letter
6. Bitter Fruit
7. Candied Oranges
8. A Recipe for Conversion
Chapter Two: The Fruit of Love
1. Two Men and an Orange
2. Fairy Fruit
3. Basile's Citrons
4. Citrus Confusion
5. The Fruit of Love
6. Local Fruit
7. The Color of Citrus
8. Fruitful Fairy Tales
Chapter Three: Fruit of the Womb
1. Pregnant Citrus
2. Fruitful Metamorphoses
3. Ferrari's Citrus
4. Fruits of the Womb
5. Sexy fruit
6. Botanical Monsters
7. Citrus Metamorphoses
8. Citrus Mothers
Chapter Four: Strange Fruit
1. Damned Oranges
2. Fruit Fit for a King
3. Immigrant Fruit
4. Citrus and Folklore
5. Golden Oranges
6. Fruit Fetish
7. Heavenly Citrus
8. Fruit from the Sea
Conclusion: Golden Fruit
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