# La Signora > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/La_Signora > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/La_Signora.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Signora > Source revision: 1333672592 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Fictional character}} {{Other uses|Signora (disambiguation){{!}}Signora}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2025}} '''La Signora''' ({{IPA|it|la siɲˈɲoːra|lang}}; {{literally|the Lady}}) is a character in [commedia dell'arte](/source/commedia_dell'arte).{{cite web |last1=Di Niro |first1=Corinna |title=From Stage to Screen: the enduring influence of Commedia dell'Arte. |url=https://creo.sae.edu.au/staffscholarship/28/ |website=Staff Scholarship |access-date=18 March 2025 |date=2 July 2024}} She is sometimes the wife of [Pantalone](/source/Pantalone) and the mistress of [Pedrolino](/source/Pedrolino).{{Citation needed|reason=No information about this found, all other sources online trace back to this Wikipedia article. Additionally, Pantalone's Wikipedia page contradicts this and states he is single and depicted as a widower and bachelor.|date=January 2026}} La Signora is tough, beautiful and calculating, and wears very wide dresses along with very heavy makeup. She walks with a flick of the toe and her arms held far out to the sides of her body. La Signora could be a "courtesan" (high class [prostitute](/source/Prostitution)), but typically manages to wrangle her way into the household of an old man, usually Pantalone, where she would inevitably [cuckold](/source/cuckold) him. She was an older, sexually experienced [Columbine](/source/Columbina), known as Rosaura.{{Citation needed|reason=No information about the name Rosaura being connected to her, all other sources online trace back to this Wikipedia article.|date=January 2026}} * ''Appearance'': overdresses, wearing too many jewels, flowers, feathers and ribbons, and wearing too much hair and makeup. * ''Physicality'': like [il Capitano](/source/il_Capitano), she uses excessive and big gestures. * ''Character traits'': main aim is satisfaction of physical needs – more jewels, dresses and sex. She will scheme to have them assured. She has an immediate attraction to her counterpart, il Capitano, and they must be together. However, she is married to Pantalone, and she cheats on him regularly. A common ''[lazzo](/source/Lazzi)'' of la Signora is to have a fight with another woman, as she is very proud and often ridicules others. ==Popular culture== Representations of or characters based on la Signora in contemporary popular culture include la Signora from ''[Genshin Impact](/source/Genshin_Impact)'' (where she is the Eighth of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers), and la Signora from the comic book series ''[Power Man and Iron Fist](/source/Power_Man_and_Iron_Fist)'', where she is a minor villain, part of the ''commedia della morte''. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Signora, La}} Category:Commedia dell'arte female characters Category:Fictional courtesans Category:Female stock characters {{Theater-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [La Signora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Signora) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Signora?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.