Arabic text taken from “The book of Roger” (Nuzhat al mushtaq li ikhtiraq al alaq Kitab = the book of those who delight in traveling the world) by the Moroccan geographer Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn’ Abd Allah ibn Idrīs al-Ṣabti , better known as Al Idrisi, handed over to the Norman king of Sicily.
The Arabs have always been innovators and experimenters and had identified Sicily as the ideal place for the production of pasta, of the “Itriya”.