According to legend, nougat was born in 1441 during the marriage of francesco sforza and bianca maria visconti. The bride and groom were offered a sweet made with honey, almonds and egg white, in the form of Torrazzo or "torrione", the thirteenth century tower (of Cremona cathedral), from which the Italian word for nougat, "Torrone" , would seem to take its name. During the nineteenth century in Cremona many groceries were producing the nougat by hand. Secondo Vergani worked as a grocer"s boy in Porta Venezia. In 1881 he acquired the shop and started devoting himself to the production of nougat.