The typically Venetian mask from the Commedia dell'Arte, played by a singular and elderly merchant with a frank dialectal way of speaking. He is often depicted with a bag of money, called bezzi or palanche in the Venetian language, which highlights a part of his personality: wealth that is sometimes pushed to avarice.
Among the masks of the Commedia dell'Arte, Pantalon de 'Bisognosi is the Venetian. A man who has lived his life and now most certainly old. With his hooked nose, red costume and black cape he embodies the character of the merchants who planted the Lion of Venice in e
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