Tartaglia (commedia dell'arte)

Spanish tartamudear), he is usually classed as one of the group of old characters (vecchio) who appears in many scenarios as one of the lovers (innamorati).

Tartaglia wears a large felt hat, an enormous cloak, oversized boots, a long sword, a giant moustache, and a cardboard nose.

Tartaglia comes from the southern, or Neapolitan, quartet of masks, along with Coviello, Scaramouche, and Pulcinella.

In the opera Le maschere by Pietro Mascagni, one of the servants is Tartaglia, whose aria (Quella è una strada) requires him to stutter.

Gino Tartaglia, played by Charles Calvert, in the radio crime drama Broadway Is My Beat.