Montaigne and Cardinal Carafa’s maître d’hôtel
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Bulletin de la Société internationale des amis de Montaigne
2020 – 2, n° 72. Saveur du savoir Mélanges Alain Legros - Author: Balsamo (Jean)
- Pages: 131 to 139
- Journal: Bulletin for the International Society of Friends of Montaigne
The Essais mention a conversation Montaigne had with Cardinal Caraffa’s majordomo. This meeting took place before his travel in Italy. Its account concerns literature more than biography: it points out Montaigne as a reader of Italian gastronomy books, which he used in a satirical intention linked to the contemporary anti-Italian debate.
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- ISBN: 978-2-406-11356-0
- EAN: 9782406113560
- ISSN: 2261-897X
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11356-0.p.0131
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 01-25-2021
- Periodicity: Biannual
- Language: French
- Keyword: witticism, satire, anti-Italianism, intertextuality, Rabelais, Cristoforo di Messiburgo, Bartolomeo Scappi
