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See also: Colombine

Colombine , Colombina in Italian, is a standard character of the Commedia dell' arte .

Veined villager, confidante, humble maidservant or waked up, bold maidservant and insolente with the sharp spirit, Colombine are girl, woman in turn or mistress of Cassandre, Pantalon, partner of Pierrot or ingenuous romantic and in love teases Arlequin.

Beautiful, it carries a mask. Very malicious, it carries out Arlequin by the end of the nose and is often the object of the lustful attentions of Pants, which causes the jealousy of Harlequin. Like all the servants, it reacts by the silly thing, cupidity and the discord.

The type of Colombine underwent various modifications with the scene, with the wire of time, according to the imagination of the actresses who created the figures of Betta , Francisquine , Diamantine , Marinette , Violette , Coraline and Guaiassa . Betta , flattering and corrupted, appeared as of 1528, on the theater of Padoue, in the comedies of Angelo Beolco, said Ruzzante .

Francisquine is the name of loan, remained with the theater, of Silvia Roncagli, the troop of Gelosi come to France in 1578. In the same way, the Roman Patricia Adami, who began in Paris in 1660, made famous the name of Diamantine . Marinette was the name carried by the woman of Fiurelli and Angélique Toscano. Violet points out the memory of Marguerite Rusca, woman of famous Vizentini says Thomassin, which formed part, in 1716, of the Italian troop of the Regent, and Coralline, that of Venetian Anna Veronese.

One finds no mention, in the first Italian documents on commedia LED' arte, of an actress having Colombina like name or pseudonym. The oldest text where the name of Colombina is quoted is Cicalamento in canzonette ridicolose, O vero Trattato di matrimonio will tra Buffetto, E Colombina comici (1646) of Carlo Cantù says Buffetto. But true the Character of theater named Colombine (in French), with all its physical graces and its imperfections morals, appears only at the end of the 17th century to the Parisian theater of the Commedia dell'Arte. It is Catherine Biancolelli (1665 - 1716), girl of the harlequin Dominique and woman of the actor Pierre the Black of Thorillière, which begins under this pseudonym, in 1683, in Arlequin Protée of Nolant de Fatouville.

With, Colombine exchanges its name against those of Zerbinette , Olivette , Tontine , Mariette , Farinette , Babet , Perrette , Fiametta , Catte , etc

References

Maurice Sand, Masks and buffoons (Italian comedy) , Paris, Michel Levy brothers, 1860
Marc Monnier, Aïeux de Figaro , Paris, Louis Hatchet, 1868

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 492

External bond

Card of Catherine Biancolelli on the site César

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