This character inspired the ever-hungry Truffaldino, who tries to gorge himself while simultaneously serving two different banquets in the play The Servant of Two Masters. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this typically acrobatic commedia dell’arte character derived from the Zanni character archetype. This mischievous character would often play foil to his downbeat counterpart Pierrot.
ANSWER: Harlequin [or Arlecchino; reject “clowns”]
[10h] The Servant of Two Masters was written by this 18th-century Italian playwright who also wrote The Mistress of the Inn.
ANSWER: Carlo Goldoni
[10e] Goldoni collaborated with Antonio Vivaldi on the libretto Griselda, which is based on a story from this Giovanni Bocaccio collection set during the Plague.
ANSWER: The Decameron [or Decamerone]
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