Food and Wine, Love and Death

Delivered on  21st February 2012 at Palazzo Santa Sofia, Mdina by Prof. John Varriano.

An illustrated talk based on primary sources in literature and the visual arts, examined the ways in which food was considered both a sexual metaphor and an agent of procreation during the Italian Renaissance, as well as the changing associations of wine with death in the ancient and Early Modern periods.

Lecture organised by Palazzo Falson.

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