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A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the buffone, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
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