zibaldone

Italian edit

FWOTD – 25 April 2018

Uncertain, but likely an alteration of zabaione.

zibaldone m (plural zibaldoni)

(outdated) any dish made up of various and mixed ingredients; a concoction
Synonym: intruglio
(by extension) a confusing mixture of diverse things or people; a hodgepodge
Synonyms: ammasso, accozzaglia, guazzabuglio, marasma
(by extension, old-fashioned) a book containing writings collected in a scattered fashion
Synonyms: brogliaccio, scartafaccio
- 1940, Alessandro Perosa, “Una fonte secentesca dello Specimen del Bandini in un codice della Biblioteca Marucelliana”, in La Bibliofilia, number 42, page 231:
  Il codice McI. B I 9 è una specie di zibaldone di cose disparatissime scritte da varie mani; è costituito da molti fascicoli, fogli volanti, (alcuni anche a stampa) legati insieme verso la fine del 1700.
  The codex McI. B I 9 is a kind of zibaldone of disparate things written by various hands; it is made up of many leaflets, loose sheets (some also printed) bound together towards the end of the 1700s.
(by extension) a collection of loosely connected thoughts. (particularly after a notebook by Giacomo Leopardi)