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Cover 1 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction: How to Peel an Orange 14 1 Fruit of the Spirit: Health, Salvation, and Catherine of Siena’s Candied Oranges 26 The Ambivalent Status of Early Modern Fruit 26 Holy People and the Introduction of Oranges in Europe 32 Sweet and Bitter Flavours in Catherine’s Orange Letter 39 Catherine’s Recipe for Candying and for Holiness 46 2 The Fruit of Love: Citrus Symbolism in Pontano and Basile 58 Oranges as Symbols of Love in Renaissance Culture 58 Pontano’s De hortis Hesperidum and the Praise of Campania 68 Women and Fruit in Basile’s “The Three Citrons” 75 Citrus Fruit and the Literary Dignity of Fairy Tales 81 3 The Fruit of the Womb: Ferrari’s Maternal Images of Citrus 91 Pregnancy and Metamorphosis in Botany and Literature 91 Fruit, Women, and Monsters in Early Modern Europe 115 The Classification of Citrus Monsters in Hesperides 121 Ferrari’s Citrus Myths of Origin 130 4 Strange Fruit: Violence and the Sacred in the Economy of Citrus 139 Oranges and Wealth in Early Modern Times 139 The Ambivalent Value of Oranges in Sicilian Folklore 144 Sacred Oranges and Immigrant Stories 152 Violence and the Sacred Orange

Author

Mazzoni, Cristina;

Language

EN