ABSTRACT
Name. Athough there is a record of a Piero in 1547, throughout the rest of the sixteenth century the character was obscure until re-emerging as Pagliaccio (1570), then Gian-Farina (1598), becoming Pedrolino as the creation of Giovanni Pellesini who played first with a company known simply as Pedrolino’s (1576), then with the Gelosi, then with the Uniti, and finally the Confidenti. The name Pedrolino was used throughout the seventeenth century, finally being adapted in France from a minor variant, Pierrotto, into Pierrot in 1665.
