Columbina (Italian: Colombina,[2] meaning "little dove"; French and English: Colombine) is a stock character in the commedia dell'arte.[3] She is Harlequin's mistress,[3] a comic servant playing the tricky slave type, and wife of Pierrot. Rudlin and Crick use the Italian spelling Colombina in Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Troupes.[4]
Columbine, Character in Italian comedy, the mistress of Harlequin (Arlecchino)
... certainly not 'Columbina'—who never existed anywhere.
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