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	Zanni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Zanni is stupid, poor, and slow, and therefore is the lowest character on the social scale.
		Zanni's costume usually consists of a baggy white jumpsuit or shirt-and-pants outfit, since he is too poor to afford anything else.
		Because Zanni is used to carrying heavy sacks and such on his back, his back is arched, and he stands with one leg in front of himself for balance.
	www.american.edu /IRVINE/jenn/zanni.htm (301 words)

	Commedia Stock Characters Zanni
		Zanni is both singular and plural, the Venetian diminutive of Giovanni.
		Zanni is that regrettably eternal unfortuante, the dispossessed immigrant worker.
		Zanni stands with an arched back, with his knees bent and apart and his feet splayed.
	shane-arts.com /Commedia-Zanni.htm (1463 words)

	Zanni -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Zanni (from the (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian, dialectal nickname for Giovanni) was the archetype of the comic servant characters of the (Click link for more info and facts about Commedia dell'arte) Commedia dell'arte.
		The character of Zanni was an older, impoverished man and hired servant of one of the other characters, typically (Click link for more info and facts about Pantalone) Pantalone.
		The word eventually evolved into the (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English word "zany".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/z/za/zanni.htm (155 words)

	Zanni
		Zanni's movements are very exaggerated and his head sticks out seperately from the movements of his body.
		Zanni sleeps all the time and does this by standing on one leg and crosses his other leg over his knee.
		Zanni props his head on his arm on his knee and goes to sleep making lots of noise (belching, farting, snoring, etc).
	www.geocities.com /commedia_dellarte/Characters/zanni/zanni.html (329 words)

	White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Daniele Zanni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Daniele Zanni primarily advises domestic and international companies, as well as real estate developers, lenders, purchasers and private investors, on a wide range of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions and real estate transactions (acquisition, development, financing and leasing of large commercial real estate projects).
		Zanniâs experience also includes litigation matters before Italian Courts and panel of arbitrators, advising on Services decision and plans that pose arbitration and litigation risks, providing strategies to resolve complex intermedial disputes such as those involving multiple claims and parties.
		Zanni was a partner in one of the most highly regarded firms in Milan.
	www.whitecase.com /lawyers/bio.aspx?bioid=11798 (308 words)

	zanni -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		plural zanni or zannis stock servant character in the Italian improvisational theatre known as the commedia dell'arte.
		Originally one of the comic servants, or zanni, of the commedia, Brighella was a jack-of-all-trades whose loyalty as a soldier, hangman's varlet, assassin, or gentleman's valet could be easily bought.
		One of the comic servants, or zanni, Pedrolino functioned in the commedia as an unsuccessful lover and a victim of the pranks of his fellow comedians.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078245?tocId=9078245 (656 words)

	Maskweb
		Zannis are the normal blue-collar workers whom the actors tried to appeal to.
		Zanni’s mask was meant to resemble a chicken, which explains the long beak as a nose.
		Zanni is frequently the bungler of the Commedia plot.
	www.xs4all.nl /~heffels/maskerweb/Maskweb/zanni.htm (1120 words)

	UW Madison - Department of Chemistry - Martin Zanni
		Zanni, N.-H. Ge, Y. Kim, and R. Hochstrasser, “2D IR spectroscopy can be designed to eliminate the diagonal peaks and exhibit only the cross peaks needed for structure determination,” Proc.
		Research in the Zanni group is aimed at exploring molecular structures and dynamics through vibrational motions and couplings.
		The approach in the Zanni group is to use modern DNA sequencing methods, synthetic bases, and 2D IR spectroscopy to measure the inter- and intra-strand couplings between DNA strands.
	www.chem.wisc.edu /people/profiles/Zanni.php (749 words)

	Philadelphia Convention Attendees Learn Benefits of Science Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Zanni explained the various ways teachers and students could benefit from the competition.
		Zanni also outlined the roles of teachers and advisors in the competition.
		Zanni offered several tips for acquiring funding for research projects, noting that teachers have constantly asked him for ideas.
	www.nsta.org /main/news/stories/nsta_story.php?news_story_ID=48127 (502 words)

	Plays
		He sees Zanni and instucts him to find an appropriate woman for him so that he may serenade her.
		Zanni ignores her as best he can and tells her about Flavio.
		Il Capitano recovers by telling Zanni that he was too overwhelming in his seductive powers and she got confused.
	www.geocities.com /commedia_dellarte/Plays/plays.html (420 words)

	E-Flux : Epic Tales by Carlo Zanni - (2003-06-25)
		This is most striking when Zanni's engine is used to scan news sites and reportage of current events.
		It is tempting though to misread the title as a call to defend other standards in society - a realistic awareness of the implications of military power, a clear appraisal of the glamorization of past wars and recognition of the value of plain speaking.
		Carlo Zanni is an Italian born artist (1975) living between Milan and NY.
	www.e-flux.com /displayshow.php?file=message_1056203751.txt (701 words)

	The Convergence Newsletter
		Zanni was an Ifra Newsplex Fellow, a program that offers media professionals and academic faculty members an opportunity to observe and participate in training and research under way at Newsplex.
		Zanni wanted a chance to see how other media companies were incorporating convergence into their work, so she traveled to South Carolina and spent time learning convergence at Newsplex.
		Zanni has been thinking about ways to communicate with new media since the mid-1990s when she began working in Web publishing and development.
	www.jour.sc.edu /news/convergence/issue8.html (5459 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		TWO OF THOSE familiar types are represented in "Zanni" by powerful fuddy-duddy Fakanapa (Ryan Miyashiro) and Fakanapa's bawdy and sexually aggressive wife, Rosalinga (Kelly Green Williams).
		(Zannis -- the feminine version is zagna -- are the well-intentioned but dim-witted comic servants of the major characters).
		"Zanni" moves faster but is just as entertaining as "Guano," the show Pisculli wrote and directed while completing work on his MFA at the UH several years ago.
	starbulletin.com /2001/03/16/features/story6.html (615 words)

	NAR Features
		Altar boy, in essence, is a computer server that can function as a sculpture in the gallery that when connected to the net offers access to net projects developed by the artist.
		And while artists have a tendency to crititique the market in which they function, Zanni is embracing the possibility of full-on commodification of net art, while also claiming a critical position.
		I want to repost here part of an email I sent last week to nettime as a response to Cornelia Sollfrank's message that a work of her was purchased by one of Germany's most important private collections "the Sammlung Volksfuersorge".
	www.netartreview.net /weeklyFeatures/2004_02_15_archive.html (961 words)

	Dom Zanni Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Dom Zanni was born on Tuesday, March 1, 1932, in Bronx, New York.
		Zanni was 27 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 28, 1958, with the San Francisco Giants, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
		Dom Zanni's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Dom Zanni baseball statistics page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=zannido01 (309 words)

	Don Juan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The zanni are, in general, the valets and they come from the common people.
		The second zanni speak different dialects; in Lombardy and in most regions of Italy, one makes them use the language of the valleys close to Bergamo The role of the first zanni is to sustain the intrigue and to shuffle the cards
		Legend has it that the two zanni from Bergamo are in the image of the city that, by its topography, includes a lower and an upper part.
	www.don-juan.org /english/italie/li17mod04zanni.htm (898 words)

	Zanni black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The "Zanni" represents the emigrant peasants, those who settled down in cities ; they used to be land slaves but then became servants in port-cities.
		They remain attached to their culture, specially their pagan feasts and traditions, their dances, clothes and half-masks.
		From those primitive zannis they ´ll derive mostly of the Commedia italiana´s characters.
	fenice.homelinux.net /en-us/p_39.html (92 words)

	STATE OF MICHIGAN
		In accordance with MCR 7.215(H)(1), the prior Zanni panel was required to follow the precedent of Zoppi, supra.
		The Zoppi Court concluded that the plaintiff in that case was "not a member of the protected class in a reverse age discrimination case under the Civil Rights Act in light of its intended purpose." See id.
		The prior Zanni panel believed that the CRA was intended to "prohibit employers from engaging in discriminatory practices against workers considered 'too young' as well as workers considered 'too old,'" and therefore would have reversed the trial court in the present case, had it not been bound by Zoppi.
	www.michbar.org /opinions/appeals/2000/041100/6746.html (1268 words)

	Roma Constr. Co. v. Arusso
		After the DePetrillos sold their share, Peter Zanni was informed of this preexisting deal, and was warned that his project was "dead" if he did not make payments.
		Peter Zanni and Roma brought federal and state civil racketeering claims and federal civil rights claims, charging that they were injured by the conduct of aRusso and his fellow individual defendants, as well as the Town.
		Specifically, the plaintiffs point to Benjamin Zanni's alleged statement to Plaintiff Peter Zanni that the venture was "dead" unless the balance was paid.
	www.law.emory.edu /1circuit/sept96/95-2107.01a.html (7963 words)

	Italian biplane fighter aces - Fernando Zanni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gruppo commander Tenente Colonnello Zanni intercepted a pair of Greek Henschel Hs126s from 3 Mira as they were making for the lines.
		Sergente Maggiore Walter Ratticchieri at once attacked and shot down one, while Tenente Colonello Zanni gained hits on the other before it escaped into cloud, obviously heavily damaged.
		Zanni ended the war with 1 biplane victory.
	www.bahnhof.se /~surfcity/italy_zanni.htm (232 words)

	Ralyea: Zany Corneto, musical zanni
		zanni (plural and singular forms of the word are the same):
		While the zanni are a class of actors, generally dull-witted servants who nevertheless outwit their masters -- Harlequin and Brighella [Duchartre, p.124] are examples of zanni -- this zanni's name is Zany, a proper name [Duchartre, p.
		While the zanni are often portrayed playing outlandish instruments (a bellows, kitchen utensils, etc.), Zany is shown playing a real stringed instrument [Duchartre, p.
	shrike.depaul.edu /~jralyea/Cornetto.htm (186 words)

	Women's Soccer Blanks Bonnies 3-0 :: Zanni and Young each score one goal, set up another.
		Zanni, the team leader in goals (5) and total points (12), helped put the Rams on top just 5:31 into the game by slipping a pass into the box to senior forward Shannon Kittelson, who drilled her third goal of the year from 12 yards out.
		After intercepting a pass on the right side, she saw the St. Bonaventure goalie out of position and rocketed a 30-yard blast inside the near post for her second goal of the year.
		With 16:03 gone in the second half, Young nudged the ball to Zanni on an indirect free kick, and Zanni found the upper left-hand corner from 25 yards out to make it 3-0 and virtually lock up the win.
	gorhody.collegesports.com /sports/w-soccer/recaps/101401aaa.html (447 words)

	Issue for Week of July 7, 2003
		The topic this week was prompted by Zanni's art project on War and AfterWar as the style of our culture since Beowulf.
		Zanni did a wonderful piece of virtual art, now in the virtual art space of the Glasgow Center for Contemporary Art.
		See how Zanni's program transforms the page.Then link to the examples he provides at the end of his explanation: 1, then 2, then 3.
	oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/criminal.justice/jcls1704.htm (1703 words)

	Ralyea: 16th c.Italian zanni with a hurdy-gurdy
		[Burdick] nicely describes the main Commedia roles (or "masks"), and notes that zanni is an Italian word for unskilled laborers**.
		'The average company consisted of two old men's parts, two lovers and their ladies, two zanni* for servants, a bragart captain, a serving-maid, and one or two extras for minor parts' [Oxford: 'Italy,' 'Commedia dell'Arte,' iii.
		Economy of the Companies (p.401)], one of the alternative names of the Commedia dell'Arte is dei zanni -- 'zanni' being the Bergomask pronunciation of Gianni, diminutive of Giovanni (i.e.
	shrike.depaul.edu /~jralyea/HGzanni.htm (201 words)

	Commedia_2Char_Scenes.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(b) Zanni is exhausted from work and is feeling an overwealming urge to eat.
		(d) Zanni needs an animal to pull his cart and Bragella tries to sell him his chicken-- a chicken which he claims will not only pull carts but will also lay golden eggs.
		(e) Zanni has to move furniture through a small room in which Soubrette is practicing her dancing.
	www.rit.edu /~dpalyka/Commedia_2Char_Scenes.html (309 words)

	Interactive Art: War and AfterWar
		Read Zanni's description of the project, and then link to the examples he provides at the end of his explanation: 1, then 2, then 3.
		When you are ready to link to the next one, close the window (x in the upper right hand corner) and you will be returned to Zanni's instruction and description window.
		Zanni set up a software program that turns the text of any URL you enter at the top of his description page into the dialog box there.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/zanni02.htm (395 words)

	Mt. Shasta Catering, McCloud Restaurant Catering Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Zanni and his family and crew will be a welcome addition to dining out, not only in McCloud, but all of the North State.
		On November 2, 1996, we retained the services of Raymond Zanni to prepare and serve a dinner for 75 guests.
		We have know the Zanni's for many years and know them to be honest, dependable, dedicated and very hard working.
	www.raymondsitalian.com /catering.htm (481 words)

	June 29 2005: I simply call it art - interview with Carlo Zanni
		He originally got us interested when he launched the Altarboy – a device where art collectors can control when their internet art pieces are online – and he has since been featured twice in our networks list with his eBay Landscape and Average Shoveler.
		Carlo Zanni is currently on show in VertexList in New York
		A selection of Zanni's paintings at Analix Forever Gallery in Geneva.
	www.artificial.dk /articles/cz.htm (1773 words)

	Women's Soccer Outlasts Fordham, 1-0, In Double Overtime :: Senior captain Catherine Zanni scored the only goal in the ...
		Senior captain Catherine Zanni scored her fourth game-winning goal of the year in the Rams 1-0 double-overtime win over Fordham on Oct. 7.
		Midway through the second overtime period, sophomore Lauren Melofchik took a pass from fellow sophomore Erica Young and notched a shot on goal that was stopped by the Fordham Keeper.
		Senior captain Catherine Zanni collected the rebound and put in the follow-up shot to give Rhode Island a 1-0 victory at 113:43.
	gorhody.collegesports.com /sports/w-soccer/recaps/100701aaa.html (356 words)

	Historical theater explores 'zanni' and 'slapstick'
		A complex mixture of laziness and industriousness, awkwardness and grace, Harlequin was known as a 'zanni', a Venetian word which was used in the 16th century as a generic name for servants, that has since evolved into the word 'zany' meaning dumb, humorous, madcap or wacky.
		The zanni typically took no part in the development of the plot but helped to maintain the rhythm of the comedy as a whole.
		Characters such as Dottore (the doctor) or Pantalone (the merchant/father) were the straight men around whom the story revolved.
	www.sharlot.org /archives/history/dayspast/text/2001_06_17.shtml (1510 words)

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