Pinocchio

Carlo Lorenzini, known as Collodi, was born in Florence on November 24, 1826. His pen name is a tribute to the village of Collodi, where his mother was born and where he spent part of his childhood. He later dedicated himself to children's literature, translating fairy tales by Perrault, d'Aulnoy, and de Beaumont, and innovating school textbooks. In 1881, he began serializing The Adventures of Pinocchio in the Giornale per i bambini, creating a work that would become a classic of world literature. Conceived, written, and published in Florence in 1883, the novel combines a direct language with a balance of lightness, irony, and depth, transforming into a universal metaphor of the human experience.