Non sapevo che Laura avrebbe infornato anche del pane per la colazione di domani.

Italian often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb ending already tells you who the subject is.

• sapevo = I knew / I was knowing
• so io is not necessary

You could say Io non sapevo, but that would usually add emphasis, as in I didn’t know, but someone else did.

Non sapevo is very natural because the imperfect often describes a past state, situation, or background condition. Not knowing something is a state, so the imperfect fits well.

Here it means something like:

• I didn’t know
• I wasn’t aware

By contrast, non ho saputo usually sounds more like a completed event, often with a nuance such as I found out only later or I failed to know / hear about it. In this sentence, non sapevo is the normal choice.

Che introduces a subordinate clause, just like that in English.

• Non sapevo che... = I didn’t know that...

So the sentence is built as:

• Non sapevo = main clause
• che Laura avrebbe infornato... = the information that was unknown

This is a very common Italian pattern called future in the past.

The main verb sapevo is in the past. The action of Laura baking the bread is still in the future from that past point of view. Italian often expresses that with the past conditional:

• avrebbe infornato

So the idea is:

• At that time, I did not know
• that later Laura was going to bake / would bake some bread too

Even though the form looks like English would have baked, here it is not mainly a counterfactual idea. It is a standard way to express a later action from a past perspective.

No. Here avrebbe infornato is not a conditional in the sense of would have baked if.... It is being used for future in the past.

So this sentence does not mean:

• Laura would have baked bread if something had happened

It means:

• from that past point of view, Laura would later bake bread

A true conditional use would be something like:

• Laura avrebbe infornato il pane se avesse avuto tempo

That is different from the sentence here.

Because sapere normally introduces something treated as a fact, not as an opinion, doubt, or wish.

So after sapere, Italian usually uses the indicative system, not the subjunctive:

• So che è vero
• Sapevo che arrivava
• Non sapevo che Laura avrebbe infornato...

Here the speaker is talking about a real fact that they did not know at the time. The clause is not presented as uncertain in the speaker’s view, so the subjunctive is not the normal choice.

Literally, infornare means to put into the oven. In many contexts, especially with bread, pizza, or pastries, it can also naturally suggest to bake or to put in to bake.

So here it gives the idea that Laura was going to bake some bread, with a slightly more concrete image of putting it in the oven.

It is a bit more specific than a verb like:

• cuocere = to cook, bake
• fare = to make

So infornare focuses on the oven stage.

Del pane is a partitive expression meaning some bread.

• del = di + il
• del pane = some bread

Italian often uses this with mass nouns or uncountable things when you mean an indefinite quantity.

Compare:

• del pane = some bread
• il pane = the bread, a specific bread already known in the context
• pane = bread in a more general or abstract sense, or sometimes in a more compact style

Because the sentence means that Laura would bake some bread, del pane is the most natural choice.

Because pane is usually treated as a mass noun, like bread in English.

So even if the real-world quantity could be several rolls or loaves, Italian often uses singular pane when speaking generally about the substance or food itself.

That is why del pane means some bread, not necessarily one single loaf.

Anche means also or too.

In this sentence, it is attached to del pane, so the idea is that bread was an additional thing Laura was going to bake.

So the sense is:

• Laura was going to bake bread too
• bread was one more item, not the only thing

Its position matters. For example:

• Laura avrebbe infornato anche del pane = she would bake some bread too
• Anche Laura avrebbe infornato del pane = Laura too would have baked bread

So here anche is not emphasizing Laura; it is emphasizing the bread as an extra item.

Here per means for, showing purpose or intended use.

• per la colazione di domani = for tomorrow’s breakfast

So the bread is being baked with that meal in mind.

This is different from a colazione, which usually means at breakfast or for breakfast in a more general time-of-day sense. In this sentence, the meaning is specifically that the bread is intended for tomorrow’s breakfast, so per la colazione di domani is a very natural phrasing.

Di domani modifies colazione, not pane.

So the structure is:

• la colazione di domani = tomorrow’s breakfast

It does not mean that the bread is somehow of tomorrow. The phrase simply identifies which breakfast is meant: the breakfast happening tomorrow.

In English, we usually say tomorrow’s breakfast. Italian often expresses that with:

• la colazione di domani