In I877, among the European missionaries who came to Sri Lanka, there was an Italian secular priest named Luigi Punchinello, who became the parish priest of Kalutara.
Examples from Classical Literature
But any though he is, he is as capable of devotion to his Columbine as Punchinello, and remains faithfully mated year after year.
Columbine soliloquizes for a moment about her husband Punchinello, whom she does not expect home until morning.
Kings and queens had often hailed him thus, for Punchinello pleased all folk.
Suddenly the child stopped, for Punchinello was no longer dancing.
In fact it has much of the garish misery of the Punchinello story.
In a sheet from the dispersed portfolio at the British Museum, Punchinello is carried off on the back of a centaur.
It is also from Naples that we have taken the Punchinello dance.
Punchinello traveled around the world in company with a circus.
The circus folk said Punchinello was not well and told him he must rest.
Konrad is at the hospital awaiting the birth of his own child whom he is convinced will be a boy and hence will be called Punchinello, after the greatest of all clowns.
Highlight of Christie's drawings sale on the 6 July is one of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo's glorious pen, ink and wash drawings from the life of Punchinello series.
The march Punchinello opened the evening followed by Festive Overture by Shostakovich, both played with real brio and certainly got the concert of to a bright start.
He is neither a gentleman in manner nor in feeling, but a sort of buffoon, a punchinello, a pantaloon.
The punchinello steps forward, balancing his green and yellow hump.
