What can 'tie a cake in a couple with the Certosa di Pavia?
Lodovico il Moro and Beatrice d'Este is the pair at the Certosa di Pavia that he wanted to rest after their death.
Cake, Renaissance is the Dolceriso, whose recipe was born at the Sforza court, and legend has it that an invention is the wife of the Moor the educated and young Beatrice d'Este. At the end of fourteen hundred Lodovico il Moro it was the Duke of Milan and had created a splendid court.
To give even more luster, after buying a noble title, started grandiose public works and private, supported artists and scientists, organized dances, and - strong in his power - he had wore to bed the most beautiful women of the era, which also the maid of honor of Beatrice, Cecilia Gallerani who was the famous painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the painting "Lady with an Ermine."
Beatrice, when she became Duchess of Milan, was the height of his cultural and fashion. Lo splendore della sua corte, nel seppur breve tempo della sua esistenza e al di sopra di ogni altra in Europa, divenne leggendario. I continui ed incessanti ricevimenti probabilmente portarono allo sfinimento Beatrice che morì di parto, dopo una grande festa a Milano - a soli ventidue anni - nel gennaio del 1497.
L'antica ricetta del dolce è simile a un budino di riso, ricotto e richiuso in un involucro di pasta frolla, arricchito con canditi, pinoli, mandorle e aromatizzato con acqua di rose. Considerata l’indole infedele del Moro, l’utilizzo dell’acqua di rose nella torta probabilmente non fu casuale. Pare che l’acqua di rose abbia speciali powers. Healing the wounds inflicted by the repeated betrayals, would lead the beloved to return to the path of the house, make romantic and disseminate concord, harmony and patience in the pair.
do not know how many cakes Lodovico was able to enjoy, but the water rose, however, failed to have the effect desired by Beatrice, as they gathered more, even after death.
The tomb can be seen in the left transept of the Certosa di Pavia is in fact empty.
After the death of his wife was the same Ludovico il Moro to commission the execution of the monument which was to bring them together. Carvings were initially placed in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. To prevent the destruction in 1564 were bought by the monks and brought to the Certosa di Pavia.
The Duke of Milan, Ludovico il Moro, 10 April 1500 was taken prisoner by the French and imprisoned in the castle of Loches, a small town in France, where - in 1508 - died there. He is currently buried in the Church of the Dominicans of Tarascon, France. His Beatrice is instead buried in the Church of the Dominicans of St. Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
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| Certosa di Pavia - Il cenotafio di Ludovico il Moro e di sua moglie Beatrice d'Este (Cristoforo Solari) foto di Marco Bonavoglia |
Dolceriso per il Moro
per la pasta frolla
400 grammi di farina
200 grammo di burro
180 grammi di zucchero
2 egg yolks for the filling
250 grams of rice
1 liter of milk 50 grams butter
half vanilla bean
a bit 'of a lemon peel, cinnamon
40 grams of pine nuts
100 grams of almonds candied citron
egg yolk 150 grams of sugar a pinch of salt
2 or 3 drops of rose water or rose essential oil for food
Prepare the pastry with the sugar, eggs, butter, salt and flour.
Mix and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Boil the milk with the seeds of the vanilla bean and lemon zest. Add the rice
and bake for 30 minutes, adding half cooked, sugar, a grain of salt, butter and a teaspoon of cinnamon.
The rice should be al dente and left liquid (cooking the rice must be like to make a soup).
At this point, raised the lemon zest and add the pine nuts, almond flour, egg yolk, chopped candied citron.
Combine rice rose water or essence.
Line a pan with the pastry, keeping an edge of about 5 cm, and pour the mixture, close the pie with another disc of pastry and bake at 180 degrees until they have acquired a beautiful color biscuit. Before serving the
Dolceriso for Moro, sprinkle the top of fillets with almonds and powdered sugar, perhaps drawing a snake, the heraldic symbol of the effort ...
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