Note 464 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS
Reading edition
A. Dieterich, Pulcinella, 234, considers Pulcinella a descendant of Maccus, derives the name from pullicenus, pulcinus, pullus, and connects the fowl-masks of Italian comedy with the cockscomb of the English fool (cf. vol. i. p. 385).