Cropoli

Role: Italian innkeeper · First appears: Chapter 5

Life events

• Cropoli took possession of the pointed-gable house and established a macaroni hostelry.(Chapter5 · 📍 Blois)
  • “Towards the middle of the reign of Louis XIII. only, an Italian named Cropoli, escaped from the kitchens of the Marechal d’Ancre, came and took possession of this house. There he established a little hostelry, in which was fabricated a macaroni so delicious that people came from miles round to fetch it or eat it.”
• Cropoli revealed a hidden fortune to his son and died.(Chapter5 · 📍 Blois)
  • With: Cropole
  • “The worthy Cropoli, after these recommendations, had only sufficient time to point out to his young successor a chimney, under the slab of which he had hidden a thousand ten-franc pieces, and then expired.”
• 1643 · Cropoli died after entrusting his son with the macaroni secret and hidden fortune.(Chapter5 · 📍 Blois)
  • With: Cropole
  • “When he found himself about to die, which happened in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended him to preserve carefully the secret of the macaroni, to Frenchify his name, and at length, when the political horizon should be cleared from the clouds which obscured it—this was practiced then as in our day, to order of the nearest smith a handsome sign, upon which a famous painter, whom he named, should design two queens’ portraits, with these words as a legend: ‘TO THE MEDICI.’”

Chapter 5

• child: Cropole (Cropoli is identified as the father of the young successor later known as Cropole.) “When he found himself about to die, which happened in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended him to preserve carefully the secret of the macaroni, to Frenchify his name, and at length, when the political horizon should be cleared from the clouds which obscured it—this was practiced then as in our day, to order of the nearest smith a handsome sign, upon which a famous painter, whom he named, should design two queens’ portraits, with these words as a legend: ‘TO THE MEDICI.’ The worthy Cropoli, after these recommendations, had only sufficient time to point out to his young successor a chimney, under the slab of which he had hidden a thousand ten-franc pieces, and then expired.”
• employer: Marechal d’Ancre (Cropoli had been employed in the marshal’s kitchens.) “an Italian named Cropoli, escaped from the kitchens of the Marechal d’Ancre, came and took possession of this house”
• with Mary de Medici (Mary de Medici sent for Cropoli’s macaroni.) “when Mary de Medici was a prisoner, as we know, in the castle of Blois, she once sent for some”
• protégé: Pittrino (Cropoli sheltered and supported Pittrino.) “he held in such esteem, we may say in such friendship, the famous Pittrino, that he took him in his own house”
• friends with Pittrino (The text explicitly describes Cropoli’s friendship for Pittrino.) “he held in such esteem, we may say in such friendship, the famous Pittrino”

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Extracted from the original text of The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Made with Rho MD.