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Bernardo Buontalenti is credited for making the forerunner to gelato. Gelato in its modern form however, is credited to the Italian chef Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli who in the late 1600s opened his "Café Procope" in Paris and introduced gelato at his café, earning notability first in Paris and then in the rest of Europe. Thanks to his gelato, Procopio not only obtained French citizenship, but also got an exclusive royal licence issued by King Louis XIV, making him at the time the sole producer of the frozen dessert in the kingdom.

In the 1900s-1950s, different innovations made the automatic production of Gelato easier. The Motogelatiera was created which was the first automatic machine that made gelato. Other innovations like the batch freezer made it easier to store frozen desserts such as gelato. Around the 1940s Bruto Carpigiani worked to create machines that would make the production of gelato safer and easier. Nowadays, Carpigiani is one of the biggest manufactures of gelato machinery. Today, gelato is known worldwide and Italy is the only country where the market share of artisanal gelato versus mass-produced gelato is over 55%.