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Where does the merchant Pantalone come from?
Answer: Venice
Why: Pantalone's trousers gave their name to pantaloons, which English later shortened to pants.
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What nationality was Il Capitano usually given?
Answer: Spanish
Why: He began as an Italian and turned Spanish during the period when Spain dominated much of Italy.
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Where did Tristano Martinelli play Harlequin at Carnival 1584?
Answer: Paris
Why: Even the name was French, borrowed from a mischievous devil in popular French Passion plays.
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In which era did commedia dell'arte originate?
Answer: The Renaissance
Why: Professional troupes began forming across northern Italy in the 1540s as Renaissance theatre evolved.
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Whose troupe shared a Paris theatre with Scaramouche's Italians?
Answer: Molière
Why: Scaramouche's creator, Tiberio Fiorilli, dropped the mask and played with his own expressive face.
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Which Puccini opera began as a Gozzi play with commedia masks?
Answer: Turandot
Why: In Gozzi's original, Pantalone turns up as a Venetian who has become the court's secretary.
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