[Sca-cooks] RE: Italian Renaissance dining and manners

[Louise Smithson]

Katherine wrote:
"I'm looking for sources for Italian Renaissance
(specifically, Florentine in the second half of the
16th century, but not so fussy about that) dining and
manners."
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Katherine, I know of lots and lots of sources.
Problem is they are ALL in Italian. Scappi is by
itself an excelent resource, it has wood cuts, menus
for each month, descriptions of the duties of
servants, how to set up a kitchen, how to set up a
sideboard, how to set up for an outdoor feast and on
and on.  Of course very little of this is actually
translated into English, I only know it is there
because of reading it (in Italian).
There are a couple of books dealing specifically with
the jobs of the butler and the carver available online
at
http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/grewe1.htm
Including:

Il Trinciante di M. Vincenzo Cervio : ampliato et a
perfettione ridotto dal Caualier Reale Fusoritto da
Narni...
The carver of M. Vincenzo Cervio: amplified and
perfectly reduced of the Royal knight Fusoritto da
Narni.

Specifically what are you after, just general
descriptions or detailed specifics with specific
texts?
If it is the former, I may be able to help, the later
is considerably more time consuming and takes longer
to work up.

Louise





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