Possible Clues:

• Cheese holder
• Stuffed pasta squares
• Square pieces of meat-filled pasta
• King has an old stringed instrument, one which was created with Italian gut in mind
• Dumpling relative
• Course leader a violinist embraces
• Instrument in African music providing sustenance in Sicily
• Artist with musical instrument getting reduced fare from Italy
• Artist has no name for instrument which Verdi may have put away
• Run a bottomless fiddle in foreign food