Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-230) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Trees, woods, and chestnuts in early medieval Italy -- A natural history of the chestnut -- The triumph of a tree -- The poetics of the chestnut in the early Middle Ages -- Chestnuts in early medieval Campania -- Chestnuts in the Po Valley -- Conclusion : Giovanni Pascoli and the old chestnut -- Glossary.
