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Scappi, Bartolomeo

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Personal name headingScappi, Bartolomeo
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Associated countryItaly
Associated placeLombardy (Italy) Rome (Italy)
Birth date1500~
Death date1577-04-13
Place of deathRome (Italy)
Field of activityCooking, Italian
AffiliationCatholic Church
Profession or occupationCooks
Found inHis Opera, 1596: t.p. (Bartolomeo Scappi)
Il cuoco segreto dei papi : Bartolomeo Scappi e la Confraternita dei cuochi e dei pasticcieri, 2007: p. 9 (b. end of 15th century-beginning of 16th century; d. Apr. 13, 1577)
The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570), c 2008: p. 19, etc. (chef to several popes; likely birth place in the north, in Lombardy, the Veneto or Emilia; probably the little hamlet of Dumenza; the church archives register his date of death as April 13, 1577 in Rome)
Wikipedia, February 4, 2016: (Bartolomeo Scapii (c. 1500 - 13 April 1577) was a famous Renaissance chef ... recent research shows that he came from the town of Dumenza in Lombardy ... He served several cardinals ... pope Pius IV, entering the service of the Vatican kitchen. He continued to work as a chef for the pope Pius V. He acquired fame in 1570 when his monumental cookbook Opera dell `arte del cucinare was published. In the book he lists approximately 1000 recipes of the Renaissance cuisine and describes cooking techniques and tools)
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