[Sca-cooks] Re: Medieval Gastronomy website

[Johnna Holloway]

It's slightly more involved than that--
The image is noted as
Le repas amoureux from Le Decameron 	
Paris, BnF, Arsenal, manuscrit 5070 fol. 173v

By looking at the new Hypermedia site on the Decameron
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml

One can eventually determine that this is the story---

 From the Fourth Day-- the Ninth Novel
Messer Guiglielmo of Rossiglione having slaine Messer Guiglielmo 
Guardastagno, whom hee imagined to love his wife, gave her his heart to 
eate. Which she knowing afterward, threw her selfe out of an high window 
to the ground; and being dead, was then buried with her friend

Hope this explains the image being shown--

Johnnae llyn Lewis


>Ranvaig said:
>Since we are talking about subtleties, I thought I'd point out some 
>kind of food, shaped as a heart.
>http://expositions.bnf.fr/gastro/grands/150.htm
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>What particularly amused me about this picture was that in the next scene, my lady looks like she jumped out of the window to get away from it! I wonder what that says about that particular cook's abilities. Or maybe it was the type of sweet involved ...
>"And now for a swete delyght, a heart made of marchpane!"
>"Marchpane! Not again! Aaaigghhhh!"
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>Gianotta (who can't stand the stuff, herself)
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