Ice cream in Italy: who invented it?

The first frozen desserts that resembled ice cream appeared in Sicily with the Arab domination around the eleventh century.These people enjoyed drinks called sherbet that used fruit juices to the flavors of orange, pomegranate, lemon and cherries. The first artisanal ice cream was born in Sicily by the Arabs who, using the snow of Mount Etna and the mountains of the area, frozen the drinks in containers and then sweetened them with the sugar cane imported from Persia. We have to wait until the middle of 1500 when the architect Buontalenti claimed the invention of the most beloved Italian dessert...