6. Italy

Pulcinella

His name, from Italian pulcino ('chick'), refers to his distinguishing feature: a
long beaklike nose. According to another version, Pulcinella derived from the
name of Puccio d'Aniello, a peasant of Acerra, who was portrayed in a famous
picture attributed to Annibale Carracci, and indeed characterized by a long
nose

Always dressed in white with a black mask (hence conciliating the opposites of life and death), he stands out thanks to his peculiar voice, whose sharp and vibrant qualities produced with a tool called a swazzle contribute to the intense tempo of the show. Pulcinella often carries around macaroni and a wooden spoon. According to Pierre-Louis Duchartre, his traditional temperament is to be mean, vicious, and crafty and his main mode of defense is to pretend to be too stupid to know what's going on.