A know-it-all character who enchants people with his continuous talk; but soon after listening to him one realizes that his conversation is in reality, all smoke and mirrors. Well fed, plump, full of good humor and empty talk plagued by blunders, he is comical in the crowd’s eyes.
He is a well-known mask from the Commedia dell'Arte and is portrayed as a presumptuous bourgeois with an excellent appetite. He is therefore easily associated with the Italian capital city of Emilia Romagna; Bologna is considered the "learned" for its renowned university and "fat" for its tasty
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