Goliardian Order
A goliardic order ( Italian : ordine goliardico ) is a traditional student association in Italy , which corresponds in a certain way to the student associations widespread in German-speaking countries . There are currently (as of 2002) around 80 associations of this type in all parts of the country in around 25 university towns, but mainly in northern and central Italy ( Bologna , Modena , Padua , Florence , Turin , Trieste ). The movement has recently spread to the Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland ( Ticino and Graubünden ).
The overall appearance of student liaison is also referred to in Italy with the abstract word goliardia .
The Golardi orders have both male and female members.
history
While the movement originated in Bologna in 1888 on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the university there, most of the orders that exist today were created between 1946 and 1950.
organization
As a rule, there is an umbrella order ( ordine sovrano ) at the university locations, which unites around ten individual orders ( ordini vassalli ) on site or in the immediate vicinity.
The chairman of an order has a title such as Pontefice ("Pontifex"), Conte ("Count") or Gran Maestro ("Grand Master"). He is supported by a deputy, treasurer and master of ceremonies.
There is no organizational involvement of the former students ( vecchi , German: "the old ones") in the Goliardic orders, although there are occasional alumni who take part in events.
An exception is the Sovrano Ordine dei Clerici Vagantes , which was founded in 1962 as a supra-regional organization with lifelong membership.
literature
- Bologna University Press (ed.), Gaudeamus igitur, studenti e goliardia 1888–1923 , Bologna 1995
- G. Boschetti, Storie della goliardia bolognese dall'orbace alla contestazione , Bologna 1988
- M. Bortolotti, Studenti e goliardia , Museo degli Studenti, Bologna 1997
- G. Gottwals, The language use of the ordini goliardici (thesis), Heidelberg 1998
- G. Gottwals, Ordini goliardici , in: GDS Archive for University and Student History , Volume 4, Cologne 1998, pp. 168–170
- GF Moscatelli, La goliardia in Bologna dal 1945 al 1996 , Bologna 1996
- Il Punto (ed.), I canti goliardici , Edizione Biblioteca P., Turin 1997
- U. Volpini, La Goliardia, canti e tradizioni , Naples 1994.