[Sca-cooks] Italian sumptuary laws / turkey 1559
emilio szabo
emilio_szabo at yahoo.it
Wed May 28 11:37:12 PDT 2008
Googling for Giambonino da Cremona viz. Iamboninus Cremonensis, I stumbled
upon a 700 page volume on Italian sumptuary laws including many source texts.
The laws cover the time span from the XIIIth to the XVIth century.
The introduction is in Italian, the sources are written in Latin and italian:
http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/DGA-free/Fonti/Fonti_XLI.pdf
I haven't had the time to examine the texts. However, searching for "mangiare" I found
a passage from 1559, where there is a regulation on how to use
turkeys (galline d'India) and Blancmanger (mangiare biancho) in wedding feasts.
The quotation might add to our picture of the spread of turkey in 16th century cuisine.
(For those interested in the Italian text: It is on page 337 of the book, and at PDF-number 369.)
I am sure, there is more of it, but I must leave it to other readers.
Emilio
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