The main types of stock characters in commedia dell’arte are il Capitano, Innamorati, Vecchi, and Zanni. Il Capitano (the captains) are boastful military officers or leaders, like Zapp Brannigan ...

L'Amfiparnasso, by the 16th-century composer Orazio Vecchi, is known by name to music students as a cycle of madrigals arranged around a commedia dell'arte storyline routinely cited as an ...

Nella commedia dell’arte c’era un ruolo fisso, ... giovani sognatori, vecchi sciocchi e severi, servi squattrinati e furbi, soldati vanagloriosi e i parassiti ...