32 year old Marina Casagrande receives an allowance from her father by court order.


In Italy, a court has ordered Giancarlo Casagrande of Bergamo to pay his daughter an allowance of 350 euros (almost $500) every month.

She was supposed to have graduated with a degree in philosophy eight years ago but, though her classes ended way back at the beginning of the century, she’s still working on her thesis.

Her thesis is about the Holy Grail.

Marina is what they call in Italy a “bambocciona,” which translates, roughly, as “big baby”—the term for the ever-growing number of young adults still living at home.

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