53. Zuppa alla Stefani

The distinguished poet Olindo Guerrini, librarian of the University of Bologna, has a taste for learning so developed that he enjoys digging up the bones of the culinary paladins of old, and drawing astonishing inferences from them that make modern cooks laugh out loud. He was good enough to favor me with the following recipe, taken from a little book, The Art of Cooking Well, by Signor Bartolomeo Stefani of Bologna, who was the cook of His Serene Highness the Duke of Mantua in the m