Eating enemies, eating sins Anthropophagy in the Eracles Italian vulgarization

The contribution deals with two episodes of cannibalism in the Italian vulgarization of the Estoire d’Eracles (Florence, Laurentian Library, Plut. LXI.45): the barbecue feast of Turkish spies in Bohemond’s campsite; the lynching of Andronikos I Komnenos devoured by Constantinople’s women. Both events are examples of sensational punishment and revenge: in the first episode Crusaders aim to discourage the enemy, in the second one the victims seek to purify themselves from the tyrant’s sins.