pizza

The pizza is a tart of Italian origin, made of a bread dough spread and tomato sauce, covered with various ingredients and baked (wood, gas or electric). Pizza is one of the dishes of Italian cuisine that has been established almost everywhere in the world, often adapting to local tastes.

In 1789, Ferdinando Gallieni in a posthumous work14, defines pizza as a generic name for all forms of pies, focaccia and schiacciata, and to distinguish them, he lists the main ones: pizza fritta, pizza a lo furno co 'l' arecheta, pizza rognosa, pizza stracciata, pizza di cicoli, pizza doce, pizza di ricotta.

In 1797, Father Francesco D'Alberti di Villanova published in Lucca a Dizionario universale critico della lingua italiana, where only the term focaccia is specified, and in a second edition of 1804 appears the word "pizza", defined as a kind of dishes or a species of focaccia.