DE SODALICII FRATRUM , QUI “BRUSCHETTA†APPELLANTUR, ORIGINE.
OLIM, ABHINC ANNOS XVII, PHILIPPO PLACIDE DORMIENTI PAVAROTTI IMAGO SE OBTULIT. CUM OMNINO CONSUETA FACIE VIDERETUR, TAMEN PANIS ALLIO OLEOQUE CONDÃŒTUS ( QUOD “BRUSCHETTA†TUSCA LINGUA DICITUR ) EI PRO CAPITE ERAT. STATIM PAVAROTTUS PHILIPPO IMPERAVIT UT COMITEM INVENIRET AD ALIQUOD IGNOTUM CONSILIUM COSTITUENDUM, CUI NOMEN DARETUR “PASTA CARBONARIAâ€, CIBUS A LIRICO CANTORE VALDE DILECTUS. PHILIPPUS PERHORRENS SOMNO EXUSSUS EST, SED MOX SOMNUM REPETIVIT. CUM DEINDE A. D. BIS MILLESIMO SEXTO EXPERREXCTUS ESSET, IN FRANCISCUM INCIDIT REBUS SUIS CONSULENTEM ATQUE LAUTE PANIS FRUSTUM ALLIO OLEOQUE CONDÃŒTUM EDENTEM. QUOD PROFECTO PORTENTUM APPARUIT. CUM STATIM FRANCISCUS OBDORMIVISSET, IN SOMNIS FERO EQUO PÈR TUSCAM TERRAM UTI SIBI VISUS EST. QUAMVIS HUIC EQUO CONSUETA FACIE ESSET, TAMEN EI PRO UNGULIS PASTAE CARBONARIAE PARTES ERANT. EX ILLIS MIRIS PRAETERITI TEMPORIS FACTIS EQUIDEM HORTUM EST SODALICIUM CUI “FRATRES BRUSCHETTA†NOMEN DATUR.
**********MODERN ENGLISH VERSION**********
How the BRUSCHETTA BROTHERS' thing started
One day, some 17 years ago, Filippo was peacefully sleeping when Pavarotti appeared in his dreams. He was looking all as usual, but with a garlic+oil bruschetta instead of his head. He solemnly ordered that he should immediately find a partner to set up a project of unknown purpose, called 'Pasta carbonara Brothers', due to the opera singer's favourite dish. Filippo woke up in a cold sweat, and then fell asleep again. He then woke up in November 2006, and he came across Francesco who was minding his own business, while distinctively eating a slab of garlic+oil bruschetta. This was a divine sign. Francesco fell asleep immediatley, dreaming of riding a wild horse in Tuscany, all was looking as usual but with pasta carbonara instead of horseshoes. The die was cast. The Bruschetta Brothers are the present-day synthesis of those magic events of the past.
Despite being in touch with supernatural entities, the bruschetta boys have rather worldly origins and, before hanging around in Britain, they were based in the very neighbouring cities of Arezzo, Tuscany and Bolzano, Südtirol. They're also quite keen on languages and you can address them with swear words in Spanish, German and French in additon to the obvious English and Italian.
****NEW!!***** Check out the songs we uploaded. They are the result of a Sunday afternoon of crazy recording at home, with home-made tools and remains of a bad cold for one of us. We'd have thrown all the files away, if it wasn't for a very peculiar feature that characterised those moments, adding an unvaluable meaning: a slab of rotting brie cheese hidden inside Filippo's desktop pc case. The smell accompained us in nasty waves throughout the recording, and we were wondering what it was and so on. After coming to terms with it, deciding it must have been a natural biological emission from some unknown source, we parted. It was only a couple of days later that the brie was found (hidden there by a friend of us 10 days before), to our massive astoundment.
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...finally, many thanks to Marco for the superb pictures, to the Bruschetta Fathers for the superb Latin and to all our friends, regardless of their location.