biography
| name: |
Balilla
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nickname of Giovanni Battista Perasso
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pronunciation:
[baleela]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1729–81)
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| biography:
| The Genoese boy who, according to tradition, flung a stone at Austrian soldiers and thus started the revolt (1746) that freed the city. During the Fascist era it gave the name to a paramilitary youth organization for children aged between 8 and 14, the Opera Nazionale Balilla. |
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