Again from my Cassell's dictionary
Zany buffon, jester, plain good-natured.
From the Italian Zanni, diminutive of Giovanni (John), used in Venice to indicate the steretypical good natured servant from →Bergamo province, as represented in Reinassance comedy.
A surprise to find it in the English language after such a long time. But then---------how about Punch (pun)?
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