-Plumes blanches
-Crête rouge (bien formée)
-Pattes bleues (teint légèrement bleuâtre)
In 1889, the Italian royals Umberto I and Margherita visited the city of Naples. During this visit, the court invited the then-famous pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito to prepare a meal for the royals. Esposito made three pizzas. One of them was dedicated to the queen, made with red tomato sauce, white mozzarella, and green basil, symbolizing the national colors of the newly unified nation.
“…the Brandi brothers, in the midst of the Great Depression, desperate to generate more visibility for their pizzeria, decided to bend a ‘family myth’ to their advantage. They somehow found the name Camillo Galli, settled on a plausible date, and produced a credible (though not very accurate) facsimile of the royal seal using rubber. With some old paper and a pen (another mistake, as they did not use a fountain pen), exaggeratedly elegant script, and thus a forgery was created.”
In the 13th century, a new technique was developed in Fabriano, a prosperous city known for its high-quality paper production. This new method was watermarking: applying an identifying image or pattern into the paper. It served mainly to help identify paper sizes, to make the marks of the paper mills recognizable, and to indicate the quality of the paper.
