Pumpkin Tortelli

One of the most famous opening lines of an opera aria is, “Ah’... che zucconi!” the start of the title character’s agitated lament in Puccini’s comic Gianni Schicchi. Zucconi, literally translated, means big pumpkins, but the real sense of this word implies blockheads or dunces. Pumpkins have not received the exalted status in Italy that they hold in the United States. Only in lower Lombardy and upper Emilia are they at all esteemed. Italian pumpkin often has a green shell and