Bernardo #Buontalenti (#Florence, 1531-1608), architect, sculptor, painter and military engineer at the service of the #Médici family, for whom he also organized the great banquets of the court. Bountalenti invented modern #IceCream (#Gelato) in 1565, when he presented his recipe and innovative cooling techniques to Catalina de Médici, who in turn exported the novelty to #France, where in 1686 the Sicilian fisherman Francesco Procopio Dei Coltelli perfected the first ice cream machine.
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