Columbina

1862 depiction of a Colombine set in 1683[1]

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]

  1. ^ Sand, Maurice (1862). Masques et bouffons comédie italienne · Volume 1. pp. 248, 355.
  2. ^ "Colombina". Enciclopedia Treccani (in Italian).
  3. ^ a b Coulson, J.; Carr, C. T.; Hutchinson, Lucy; Eagle, Dorothy; Hawkins, Joyce (1976). The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary (Second ed.). Great Britain: Book Club Associates. p. 167. Columbine, Character in Italian comedy, the mistress of Harlequin (Arlecchino)
  4. ^ Rudlin, John; Crick, Oliver (2001). Commedia dell'arte: A Handbook for Troupes. Routledge. p. xiii. ISBN 978-0-415-20409-5. ... certainly not 'Columbina'—who never existed anywhere.

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