Over 1,000 years ago, a Catanian pasta maker assigned to make tons of macaroni for a noble family made cinque buchi (meaning "five holes") by mistakenly joining tubes.

The pasta shape with four corner holes and larger central hole soon became associated with the Carnival season in Catania, which is why it is also often called "carnival pasta."

Corzetti del Levante is a flat, circular pasta adorned with embossments that's typically 1.5 inches in diameter. Its history is much speculated upon.

However, it’s known that the practice of embossing corzetti was alive during the Renaissance, when noble families would have their sigils or coats of arms stamped onto the pasta.

Caccavelle, which is about 4 inches in diameter and about 6 inches in height, is the largest pasta shell to exist and can act as an edible bowl for your saucy mixtures.

Meaning "pots" in the regional dialect of Naples, which is where it originated, caccavelle was first launched in 2009 by Gragnano Pasta Factory, an artisanal pasta-making company.