The life of Bartolomeo Scappi, cook secret (ie staff) of Pius V, Fitters sumptuous banquets and author of a famous treatise on gastronomy of the sixteenth century, ' Opera can be reconstructed on the basis of a rough few secure items that can be taken from historical references contained in the text of his treatise.
The term further is the date April 1536, when the escapement mechanism, being at the service of Cardinal Lorenzo Camping, had the task of preparing a great banquet in honor of Charles V, the nearest is on January 17, 1567, under which is marked by a celebratory banquet him full of food in the first anniversary of the pontificate of Pius V. Also, since it is likely that the exhaust was still alive when he appeared the first edition of his treatise (1570), we have enough to believe he was born in the early decades of the sixteenth century - probably Bolognese family - and that after reaching the degree of "secret chef" at the age of Pius V (perhaps since the time of Paul III) died in the Middle back to 1570.
Under the plot a few data, however, hides a personality of great importance, estimated in the same way as other best-known performers and witnesses of Renaissance culture. Any doubts one might perhaps suggest the authenticity of the experience and knowledge of literary Scappi, which seems to constitute not so much in the guise of "author" in the function of the exponent of a "working group" that had to include , together with experts of a specific technique, the connoisseurs of the sciences that were connected, the master of courtly ritual, and not least, some "man of the pen" in charge to give order and as the plethora of literary material collected, the largest and most complete that is offered by the Italian treatises of the past. And not enough about the active role of the director explained it from escaping to restore that part of the authentic witness of a costume - that is true auteur - because guess who might be accused of: the sign is the author's personal the unitary conception of the Treaty, in its articulated structure, the coherence of a discourse that does not give up for the nuances and yet is not steeped in some verbiage that were dear to the taste of it is didactic in the efficacy of the wording and the discretion used in against the carrying capacity of the reader, for whom nothing is concealed that will help him quickly in the interpretation or ambiguity in the practical difficulty of the exercise. The title of Opera prides itself in the Treaty of Scappi therefore appears fully justified: it is a summary of the doctrine established by the daily work of an office of a teaching and educational translated in terms of example.
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Matter of the Work is divided into six books: the first, in the form of reasoning that the author imagines to do with his disciple John, this is the cook, the gifts to it are required and the tasks that are proper, the way to build environments for kitchen use, the various household goods, the method to know the best way to preserve food and healthy in the second of the various dishes of meat quadrupeds or birds, domestic and wild, and a pack of sauces and flavors, in the third fish, their appearance and nature of the way to cook them and preserve them, the different ways of cooking vegetables and eggs to make soups and d 'every kind, in the fourth list of food, distributed according to the season, fifth in the manner of packing pies, tarts, offelle, cakes, pancakes and cakes of all kinds, in the sixth of the food more suitable for food for the sick and convalescent.
The structure of the work reported here is consistent with the first edition of the Treaty (Sandwich Michele, Venice 1570), and the following other reprints until the first half of the seventeenth century, enriched by the addition of the Treaty "Trinciante" Vincent Cervio.
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