Jay Cross [Sept 26 2002]

Coviello is described in Duchartre as a character who was popular in Naples, but who didn't really endure the way some of the others did. He seems to have appeared before 1600. We have done several plays from the Napoli scenarios (almost all of which have Coviello). The originals included Coviello as a character, but we have so far tried to stick to Scala names for our characters. Coviello is a self-serving schemer, and usually a servant of the merchant or the soldier. For the purpose of handling our story, we have renamed him as Pedrolino, or as Brighella, depending on how evil he is. I discussed this with Thomas Heck, and he felt that the comparison was not really one-to-one.