ABSTRACT
Vatican librarian and gastronome Platina was more open to the pleasures of eating a much wider range of meats, demonstrating more catholic tastes. His De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine is full of numerous recipes that included poultry, organ meats, fowl, pork, and sausages. The Allegory of Autumn by Niccolo Frangipane, a follower of Titian, is a remarkable painting displaying a lascivious satyr who sticks one finger into a split melon and with his other hand grabs a sausage on top of a table full of other autumn produce. Many tales in Sercambi’s Novelliere, fifteenth-century carnival songs, and humorous and popular print allegories of Carnival used the same metaphor associating the consumption of meat/sausages with the pleasures of the senses, especially sexual pleasures. The sausage’s morphology, then, links it to the male member and to its features that could be seen both as gastronomic and sexual.
