Notevole importanza doveva avere il piccolo domestic farming. Chickens, hens, capons, in all likelihood, both the trotting yards of each peasant family on that noble land, and their presence meant to have meat first, then eggs, certainly in large numbers. It is impossible, of course, to express in figures the impact of chickens and eggs in the diet. It can help the fact that among the kitchen waste archaeological excavations have unearthed large quantities of chicken bones, pointing to a rather high consumption. Without neglecting the privileged position of the chickens at times enjoyed over other types of meat, monastic eating habits. The hearty and delicious meat of the capon, made him one of the favorite dishes of the day: it was the custom to serve on the board to celebrate a special event. In the novel CXXIII is just a happy event which is the key to the story set in the castle of Pietrasanta in Lucca. The farmer Vitale, to celebrate the student son who returns from London, is preparing a meal (which is also called the priest) based on roast capon. Reluctant initiative is the stepmother of the young man who never loses an opportunity to inveigh against her husband. The woman sees decrease the family money is spent every day since to study the stepson:
"[...] I believe that if you 'cheated, and that he, that you send what you can do and say is a dead body, and consumed him. And in this way, the woman went in costume s'avea yes to say this as a dead body that would send her husband or money or anything, so she was in their hands, saying to her husband
- Send, send, eaten well, what you have to give it your dead body. "
Those words come to the ears of the boy during his stay in Bologna and, when asked to share a capon for grammar," he splits the animal to having the central part, the most consistent, with fewer parts and distributes the capon to the other members of the family on based series of justifications only in appearance:
"Recas first of the capon, and takes the knife and cut off the crest, places it on a chopping board and by the priest, saying
- You are our spiritual father and bring the Cherica, and therefore give you Cherica of the capon, ie the ridge.
Then he cut his head, and gave similar form to his father, saying:
- And you are the head of the family, and though I give my head.
co then cut the legs' feet, and diedele to her stepmother, saying
- pertains to you go do the household goods of the house and go up and down and, and this can not be made without the legs, and therefore give them to you for your part.
sommoli wing and then cut them, and puoseli on a platter to his sister, and said
- They were soon to leave home and fly out, and therefore should have the Alie, and so I give them. I am a dead body: being thus and so I confess, for my part I this tower dead body -, and begins to cut and eat vigorously. "
"[...] I believe that if you 'cheated, and that he, that you send what you can do and say is a dead body, and consumed him. And in this way, the woman went in costume s'avea yes to say this as a dead body that would send her husband or money or anything, so she was in their hands, saying to her husband
- Send, send, eaten well, what you have to give it your dead body. "
Those words come to the ears of the boy during his stay in Bologna and, when asked to share a capon for grammar," he splits the animal to having the central part, the most consistent, with fewer parts and distributes the capon to the other members of the family on based series of justifications only in appearance:
"Recas first of the capon, and takes the knife and cut off the crest, places it on a chopping board and by the priest, saying
- You are our spiritual father and bring the Cherica, and therefore give you Cherica of the capon, ie the ridge.
Then he cut his head, and gave similar form to his father, saying:
- And you are the head of the family, and though I give my head.
co then cut the legs' feet, and diedele to her stepmother, saying
- pertains to you go do the household goods of the house and go up and down and, and this can not be made without the legs, and therefore give them to you for your part.
sommoli wing and then cut them, and puoseli on a platter to his sister, and said
- They were soon to leave home and fly out, and therefore should have the Alie, and so I give them. I am a dead body: being thus and so I confess, for my part I this tower dead body -, and begins to cut and eat vigorously. "
The partition of flesh was to be performed with the method: the portions large family always went to the head. In this context it is almost like attending a revival, in the key of course parody of the ritual of cutting and the division of the flesh. The story also reveals that the method of cutting the food could be crucial, especially if you wanted to enjoy the parties [...]
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