Goliardia

Goliardia is a type of Italian university student association, similar to the fraternities and sororities of the United States and Canada, or the german-speaking Studentenverbindung. Their mythology is built around a supposed link to a group of mostly young and disaffected clergy from 12th- to 13th-century. Even if the membership has never reached a big audiance, the numbers have always been decreasing since the post-war initiatives of keeping these clubs alive, especially considering the acts of vandalism perpetrated by its members in major Italian cities like Padua,[1] Parma,[2] Trieste,[3][4] and Genoa.