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David Gentilcore

Author of Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

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About the Author

David Gentilcore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Italy and the Potato: A History, 1550-2000 (2012), Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy (2010) and Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006).

Works by David Gentilcore

Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) (2010) 37 copies

Food and health in early modern Europe : diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800 (2015) 21 copies

Atlas of skin cancer (1991) 6 copies

Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006) 4 copies

Italiani mangiapatate : fortuna e sfortuna della patata nel Belpaese (2013) 3 copies

Italy and the potato : a history, 1550-2000 (2012) 3 copies

Proteins, pathologies and politics : dietary innovation and disease from the nineteenth century (2018) 3 copies

From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra D'Otranto (1992) 2 copies

Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century (Mental Health in Historical Perspective) (2023) 1 copy

Associated Works

Rome, Pollution and Propriety: Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity (British… (2012) — Contributor — 8 copies

La Pomme de terre : De la Renaissance au XXIe siècle (1CD audio) (2011) — Contributor — 3 copies

A cultural history of food in the early modern age (2014) 1 copy

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