He invented a wooden puppet who longed to be real, and the lie became the most famous nose in literature.
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Caricature of Carlo Lorenzini (Collodi), the author of Pinocchio (c.1875), by Angiolo Tricca
Carlo Collodi and Pinochio
Cimitero delle porte sante, cappella lorenzini, tomba di carlo collodi
Collegio degli scolopi, targa carlo lorenzini, 1983
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Giornale per i bambini 7 luglio 1881
Giornale per i bambini, Pinocchio, Collodi, 1882Writers born in the 1820s 6
About this person
Carlo Lorenzini was born in Florence in November 1826 and spent decades as a journalist and humorist before adopting the pen name Carlo Collodi. In 1881 he began serializing The Adventures of Pinocchio, a fairy tale about a carved marionette whose nose grows with every lie. The novel became his defining work, though he wrote it late in a career built on satire and children's stories. Collodi died in October 1890, seventeen years before his puppet would be translated worldwide and outlive every other Italian fictional character.
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