The land of hunger /
In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe. Camporesi brings together a mosaic of images from Italian folklore: phantasmagoric processions of giants, pigs, vagabonds, down-trodden rogues, charlatans and beggars in rags. He reconstructs...
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Cambridge, UK : Cambridge, MA, USA :
Polity Press ; Blackwell Publishers,
1995
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