Perhaps not everyone knows the history of Leonardo Da Vinci and Botticelli’s Osteria delle Tre Rane …
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Everyone knows him as an artist and prestigious man, but not everyone knows that Leonardo Da Vinci had a great love for good food that led him to Taverna delle Tre Lumache, on Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
As fate would have it, the innkeeper found himself without a cook and promoted Leonardo from waiter to head chef. In 1478, however, the place burnt down and in the same year the artist opened the Taverna delle Tre Rane with his friend Sandro Botticelli, whose real name was Alessandro Filipepi but called Botticelli because in Italian it means ’round like a barrel’ 😊.
It’s said that Leonardo and Botticelli were discussing how to design the restaurant sign. The tavern served wine from the surrounding hills and refined creative meals offered according to a large menu, but in small portions and with cutlery … which was not used at the time.
Maybe too innovative, the tavern was not a success, closing after two months … customers did not like the long theory of lilliput portions, preferring a few meals in substantial quantities and still eating with their hands.
Indeed, Sandro Botticelli’s Venus is the star of the Ministry of Tourism’s new tourism promotion campaign.
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