GOGLIARDO headgear, university student, 1947/1948 Medicine

Beautiful GOGLIARDO or felucca da universitaroi, the medical student in Padua applied 
various trinkets on the Gogliardo among which a rare university medgalia coined in 1948
 commemorating the 1st centenary of the revolt of the students and the people against 
the Austrians.

Padua was one of the first cities in Italy to kick off the riots of '48 precisely on 
February 8 of that year, the day on which Paduan students and citizens rebelled against
 the Austrian rulers, giving rise to the first movement of revolt. The Bo revolt 
anticipated the 5 days of Milan and the Venetians, in the Risorgimento, played a decisive
 role not only with Daniele Manin's Republic of Venice, but also with an elite opinion
 movement that espoused Cavour's ideals, Mazzini and Garibal