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.