The essay aims to ascertain in what terms food, in its meaning of “attribute of power”, was used by a nobility that between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries continued to exercise in Sicily a tangible political and cultural supremacy. In this specific case, the aim was to verify whether or not food consumption sustained particular seasons of the rise of the Paternò di Raddusa family within Etna and Sicilian society.

Credenza e cucina. Le spese alimentari dei Paternò di Raddusa tra Sette e Ottocento

Fabio Paolo Di Vita
2023-01-01

Abstract

The essay aims to ascertain in what terms food, in its meaning of “attribute of power”, was used by a nobility that between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries continued to exercise in Sicily a tangible political and cultural supremacy. In this specific case, the aim was to verify whether or not food consumption sustained particular seasons of the rise of the Paternò di Raddusa family within Etna and Sicilian society.
2023
978-88-31277-05-1
Food
Aristocracy
Sicily
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