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Caffè Ussero
The first goliard
In 1820, at the Caffè dell’Ussero in Pisa, the oldest documented episode of Italian student pranks took place, as described by Ersilio Michel in *Maestri e scolari dell’Università di Pisa nel Risorgimento nazionale* (Sansoni, 1949). A certain Ricci, a student from Livorno, climbed onto a small table and read aloud a witty satire in sestinas that mocked the more well-mannered and moderate students: he imagined them forming their own monarchical government, with the King granting them court positions and establishing the Knightly Order of the Donkeys. The next day, Ricci was given two hours to leave Pisa, having been suspended from the university.
The Most “Unità d’Italia”
These are the establishments which, during the Risorgimento, witnessed episodes that led to the Unification of Italy. Brought to light by research for the 2011 edition of this Guide, which paid tribute to the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy these stories have become part of the Association’s historical legacy.
At the Caffè Fiorio in Turin—a gathering place for staunch conservatives—on March 18, 1821, they attempted to persuade the court apothecary’s assistant to poison the medicine of Carlo Alberto of Savoy, who had just been appointed Regent and had promulgated the Constitution…