CARLO EMILIO GADDA

Carlo Emilio Gadda (November 14, 1893 – May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay. They said Gadda was suffering from gastronomic greed: chickpea soups. Bismark steaks and roast beef. There is an hymn to “Risotto alla Milanese”  (Milan risotto) in the chapter patriotic Risotto of Italy wonders: The Risotto alla Milanese cannot be overcooked, no! Only a bit more than slightly underdone:  the soaked and inflated kernel by sauces, but individual kernel, not to linked to its friends, not soaked in a slime, in a bath that will be unpleasant.

1.     Gadda was

a)     an Romanian painter

b)    a French poet and writer

c)     a Spanish writer and poet

d)    an Italian writer and poet

2.     Students said Gadda was suffering

a)     from gastronomic greed

b)    from nervous diseases

c)     from money greed

d)    from food allergies

3.     In one of his works Gadda described

a)     Bismark steak

b)    Milan risotto

c)     Rome risotto

d)    Naples pizza