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Balilla

Balilla was the nickname of Giovan Battista Perasso, a Genoese boy who started the revolt of 1746 against the Habsburg forces that occupied the city in the War of the Austrian Succession by throwing a stone at an Austrian official. However, the nickname was possibly assigned to him only after the revolt: the original nickname should indeed have been Mangiamerda (lit. Shit-eater), usually indicating a kid from very low social background.