Brighella
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Brighella is a masked comic character from the Italian theatre style commedia dell'arte. His early costume consisted of loose-fitting white smock and pants with green trim and was often equipped with
Brighella, from the 16th century
Mezzetino
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Mezzetino or Mezzettino is a character from the commedia dell'arte, and is considered by Duchartre to be a variant on the stock character Brighella. His name means 'Half-Measure ' in Medieval Italian,
Brighella
…Truccagnino: see Fenocchio. Mezzetino: a gentler version of Brighella, fond of the ladies even if they were not fond of him. Fenocchio: more prone to playing pranks than committing serious…
Mezzetino by Antoine Watteau
Possible portrait of Luigi Riccoboni in the costume of Mezzetin, detail from L'amour au Théâtre Italien, engraved by Charles-Nicolas Cochin after a painting by Antoine Watteau