Pasta Ripiena in Brodo

This, and the recipe that follows, are soups I remember from my school days. When I was ready to begin work on my thesis, my professor switched from the University of Padua to that of Ferrara, where I followed him. With most of my fellow students I shared two basic problems, money and hunger: little of the former and consequently much of the latter. A family that was friendly with mine knew of my predicament and, from time to time, would ask me to join their Sunday dinner. Everything I had