Crossword-Solution: PANTALONE 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The Donne Furlane was the piece, a comedy of art as they call it here-- or, as we say, a comedy of masks--wherein the stock characters of Harlequin, Columbine, Brighella and Pantalone are given a rag of a plot, and are expected to embroider that with follies, drolleries and obscenities according as their humour of the moment may dictate.

According to the plot of the play, Pantalone is an old merchant of Rimini who arrives in Venice with his family.

Torriano has _pantalone_, "a _pantalone_, a covetous and yet amorous old dotard, properly applyed in comedies unto a Venetian." _Knickerbockers_ take their name from Diedrich _Knickerbocker_, the pseudonym under which Washington Irving wrote his History of Old New York, in which the early Dutch inhabitants are depicted in baggy knee-breeches.

Hark, and tremble, you! (_Music, ceremony._ PANTALONE _takes the Book of the Law from the folds of his raiment, kisses it, holds it first to his breast and then to his forehead, and hands it to_ TARTAGLIA, _who has just cast himself on the floor, whereupon_ TARTAGLIA _recites with a loud voice_.) TARTAGLIA.

Stay, Turandot, thou little soul, what thought Is this thou harbourest now! Did _he_ show pity, When _he_ in the Divan had solved the riddles? Did he not make thee red with rage and shame? Heaven, help Adelma now, and help me, Heaven, To annihilate him utterly! Help me now To guard my virgin freedom, succour me Against the coarse and domineering sex! SCENE VIII ALTOUM, PANTALONE, TARTAGLIA, GUARDS, TURANDOT.