Give Us Today Our Daily Steak: Charity and Meat Consumption in Early Modern Rome

By the 1630s Rome was importing enough meat for daily per capita consumption to top nearly a pound per day. But, were people really eating that much meat? Focusing on the Santo Spirito Hospital, this paper will explore how meat consumption was related to the reform program of the Counter Reformation papacy and ideas of healthy eating and charity in Rome

By the 1630s Rome was importing enough meat for daily per capita consumption to top nearly a pound per day. But, were people really eating that much meat? Focusing on the Santo Spirito Hospital, this paper will explore how meat consumption was related to the reform program of the Counter Reformation papacy and ideas of healthy eating and charity in Rome