Katie’s Reviews > Medieval Rome: Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150 > Status Update

""In Milan (and many other cities), the naming changes of the twelfth century produced a large number of people named or surnamed Caca- or Caga-, Cacainarca or Cagapisto ('shit-in-the-box' or 'shit-pesto'), showing a goliardic bounciness which was indeed one of the clearest northern Italian contributions to civic innovation."