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18 | www.limina-graz.eu Alessandro De Cesaris | The Taste of Truth approach to truth and salvation: in the Christian imaginary of the human- divine relation, taste plays an essential role. In this paper I would like to provide a minimal theoretical framework in order to analyse the relevance of taste in the history of Western culture. In particular, I will propose to analyse the question of taste from the point of view of media theory, understanding taste as a medium, and many cultural expressions as a metaphoric extension of this natural medium. In this way, it will be possible to show why and how the question of taste goes well be- yond the question of eating. I will proceed as follows: in the first part of the paper I will provide a brief methodological introduction, where I try to show why we need a mediolog- ical approach to taste. After that, I will analyse taste under three different aspects: physiology, aesthetics and symbology. The core aim of this opera- tion is to offer the most complete possible answer to the question concern- ing the role of taste in the whole of human experience. Fig. 1: Alonso Cano, Lactation of St. Bernard (1650) Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado