[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]Italian Cookery was New member intro.

[johnna holloway]

There are two bibliographic sources that you should
start with in Italian Cookery.

Westbury, Lord [David Alan]. Handlist of Italian Cookery Books.
Florence [Firenze]:, Olschki, 1963.

Cagle, William R. A Matter of Taste. A Bibliographical
Catalogue of International Books on Food and Drink.
Revised edition. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press,
1999.
Do not be too quick to dismiss any Italian printed book.
Just because an edition might be published in Rome does
not mean that an earlier or later edition might not have
been the product of Venice or Bologna or Turin or Naples
or Ferrara. There are a number that cannot be identified
as to place. We have volumes that are described as "new
edition, Ferrara, 1601. Originally published [Florence?
1550?]. Moreover, the originals might have been in Latin
and then translated into Italian for subsequent publication
or even vice versa. You might want to also consult:
Claudio Benorat's Storia della Gastronomia Italiana. Milan:
Ugo Mursia, 1990. It has 9 pages of bibliography.

Hope this helps,
Johnnae llyn Lewis
Johnna Holloway

phoenissa at netscape.net wrote:
 I was actually looking through the Florilegium files yesterday for
bibliographies of period Italian manuscripts, as well as modern books on
the history of Italian cooking...found quite a bit of useful stuff
there!  I don't think I mentioned it in my intro, but my period and
place of interest is late-16thc. Florence.  I know that Scappi's "Opera"
is right around that period (1570?), but since it was published in
Venice, I assume the recipes in it differ slightly from Tuscan cooking.
(Since Florence and Venice were practically separate nations, I imagine
that their cuisine differed as much as did their dialects, architecture,
artwork, and fashion.)  I *think* Martino was Florentine - please
correct me if I'm wrong - but he's still a full century earlier than my
period of interest.  Does anyone know of a Tuscan cooking manuscript
from the late 1500's?  (Untranslated is ok.)> >
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