AESTHETIC DELIGHT OF THE FOOD IN GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0i18p65-81Keywords:
Gabriele D’Annunzio, Decadentism, Italian Literature, Aesthetic of food.Abstract
Undoubtedly Gabriele D'Annunzio is one of the most complex personalities of Italian culture and literature. A man with a marked aesthetic sense, a priest of taste, a lover of art and a connoisseur, a lover and a spectator of beauty and luxury, dandy by antonomasia, a cultivator of himself, he was also a gourmet. As a multifaceted character, it’s difficult to explain D’Annunzio in a few words. He was a lover of sweets and desserts, he consumed lots of fruit, and contrary to popular belief he was rather parsimonious at the table and engaged in long periods of fasting. This paper discusses the role of aesthetics in food, reviewing its role on basis of Perullo (2006), Visser (1998), Brillat-Savarin (1999), Grimod de La Reynière (2005) and some biographies and critical essays about the writer, this paper discuss the role of aesthetic in food, in gastronomy and in the rituals of the table described in Gabriele D'Annunzio’s works.
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