L’immaginario goloso nella poesia del Barocco: ritratti “em metáfora de doce”

In Portuguese Baroque literature there are numerous texts that refer to the pleasures of gluttony and in particular to sweets production, whose development is enhanced by the spread of sugarcane cultivation in the Lusitanian overseas domains. In this context, the present paper intends to focus on three poems in which the motif of the portrait undergoes an original development, since the figures described take shape, somewhat like the heads painted by Arcimboldo, from the combination of distinct but related elements. Indeed, the authors of the texts under consideration survey individual parts of the female body by associating them with different varieties of confectionery products.