Harlequin, Pierrot, and Columbina are figures that still today shine in the carnival, in samba schools, carnival groups and jokes. The traditional "balls of masks" have no fun if it will dont have these figures as influential of the aristocracy of any time. Gallants ladies and gentlemen show off in the fancies, some as Arlequim, others as Pierrot and others as Columbina, making a meeting of personages of the cause of the imagined loving triangle.The plot and such personages are fruits of the imagination of famous artists who had conceived them: in 1892, Leon Carvallo imagined them inside the conflict of a loving triangle, in "The clowns". In 1905, Picasso paints the "Family of Charlatans" plus other pictures with these personages. Degas and Cezanne are among the ones who had also painted their "Harlequin". Brazilian literature admits them, in 1919, with "Carnival", by Manuel Bandeira. In 1920, with "Masks", by Menotti del Picchia, and "Arlequinada", by Martins Fontes. Mário de Andrade definitively placed them in the carnival under various forms and defined them as arlequinals creatures. Zé Kete, in the Sixties, blowed with his music Black Mask: "oh, such joy/more than a thousand clowns in the hall/ the arlequim is crying for the love of the columbina/in the middle of the multitude"... The Harlequin of Bezerra Neto is still present in the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro, that makes a carnival of homesicknesses to the height of the momescals traditions.  Hurray to the Arlequim... To see more: www.bezerraneto.blogspot.com