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This article is just about a theatrical character. Columbina is also the genus of doves.


Columbina (inside Italian, Colombina, "little dove"; in French, Columbine) occurs as comical servant character from either a ''Commedia dell'Arte.

She is dressed within the ragged & patched dress appropriate to the chartered servant. Once in a while, under a title Arlecchina she would have on the motley similar to her counterpart Arlecchino. She was likewise known to put on heavily makeup in a arethe of her eyes & carry a tambourine which she can apply to fend off the amorous advances of Pantalone.

She was typically a just functional intellect on the stage. Columbina aided her mistress, a innamorata to gain a warmheartedness of her a single admittedly love by manipulating Arlecchino and counter-plotting against Pantalone while simultaneously managing a whereabouts of the innamorato''.

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