![]() ![]() In 1881 Collodi began the tale of Pinocchio for which he is best known today. Adding innovative touches, Collodi introduced a more natural writing style and realistic characterization of Giannettino, making him a naughty, lively boy rather than a prim paragon. His first children’s book, Giannettino (1877 Little Johnny) was a reworking of an earlier educational bestseller called Giannetto (by Luigi Alessandro Parravicini) about a boy’s journey around Italy. Collodi’s vast literary output included newspaper articles, plays, novels, memoirs, and-most famously-children’s books. At age 30 he adopted the pseudonym Carlo Collodi, joining his given name to that of his mother’s native village. With his brother and two friends, Carlo founded and contributed to a short-lived satirical newspaper, II lampione (The Lamppost), then became editor for a new theatrical journal ( La scaramuccia). He meanwhile became involved in Italy’s national unification movement and fought with the Tuscan army in the 1848 war of independence from Austria. Having no vocation for the church, Collodi completed his education with some priests in Tuscany, then found employment as a journalist and a civil servant. Young Carlo received his elementary schooling in his mother’s country village he showed such intellectual promise, however, that the nobleman of the house, Marchese Ginori, sent him to a Tuscan seminary in Colle Val d’Elsa for five years. Both of his parents were servants, his father a cook for the Ginori-an aristocratic Florentine family-and his mother a seamstress. ![]() A novel set during an unspecified time in a small Italian village and various fantastic realms published serially to Italian, first as La storia di un burattino in 1881 then as Le avventure di Pinocchio In 1882–1683 in English, in 1892.Ī willful, disobedient puppet comes to life, rum away from home, and has a series of adventures, but ultimately decides to mend his ways in hopes of becoming a human boy.Įvents in History at the Time of the NovelĬarlo Collodi was born Carlo Lorenzini in Florence, Italy, in 1826. ![]()
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