通过仔细阅读关键文本，包括诗歌和精神著作、童话故事和一篇植物学论文，金果研究了从中世纪引入到今天，橙子在意大利文化中的作用。克里斯蒂娜·马佐尼（Cristina Mazzoni）的书以美丽的全彩为特色，将艺术描绘、文学分析、历史背景和流行文化结合在一起，研究了橙色在时间和整个意大利半岛上不断变化的表现形式。
橙子在12世纪被引入意大利，许多世纪前，人们喜爱的地中海水果如葡萄、无花果和石榴自远古以来就广为人知。因此，现代早期的橙子没有古老的意义和象征意义，为艺术家、作家和科学家提供了一个可塑的形象。因此，在中世纪和文艺复兴时期，橙子以视觉和语言的形式出现，作为对身体和精神健康的有效帮助，作为浪漫和神圣之爱的象征，以及作为对柑橘丰富的土地的地理忠诚的标志。巴洛克时期的诗人、植物学家和画家经常将橙子与女性进行比较，因为她们有着共同的杂交天性，而后来的民间传说则从经济的角度呈现出橙子的这种双重特征，既珍贵又危险。18世纪和19世纪西西里语文本中橙子固有的暴力，在21世纪初意大利的橙子收获的争议性表现中回归。
Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy (True EPUB)
Through a close reading of key texts, including poetic and spiritual writings, fairy tales, and a botanical treatise, Golden Fruit examines the role of oranges in Italian culture from their introduction during the medieval period through to the present day. Featuring a beautiful full-colour spread, Cristina Mazzoni’s book brings together artistic depictions, literary analysis, historical context, and popular culture to investigate the changing representations of the orange over time and across the Italian peninsula.
Oranges were introduced to Italy in the 1200s, many centuries after beloved Mediterranean fruits such as grapes, figs, and pomegranates—all well-known since Antiquity. Not burdened with age-old meanings and symbolism, then, oranges in early modern times provided a malleable image for artists, writers, and scientists alike. Thus, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, oranges appear in visual and verbal representations as an effective aid in physical and spiritual health, as symbols of romantic and of divine love, and as signs of geographic allegiance to one’s citrus-rich land. Baroque poets, botanists, and painters regularly compared oranges to women for their shared hybrid nature, whereas later folklore presented this dual character of oranges from an economic standpoint, as both precious and dangerous. The violence intrinsic to oranges in these Sicilian texts from the eighteen and nineteen hundreds returns in the controversial representations of the orange harvest in early twenty-first century Italy.
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