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Carlo Collodi
Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
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culture · Italian writer (1826–1890) · writer · novelist · children's writer · journalist · translator · also Carlo Collodi, Carlo Lorenzini, Collodi
Born 24 November 1826 · Died 26 October 1890 · Q199588
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1962· 1 entry
To promote education and the works of Collodi, and Pinocchio Park, which was opened in 1956 in the town of Collodi and remains a popular attraction today
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1890· 1 entry
Died 1890-10-26.
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1880· 1 entry
Began writing Storia di un burattino (Story of a Marionette), also called Le avventure di Pinocchio, which was published weekly in Giornale per i bambini
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1876· 2 entries
Lorenzini wrote Giannettino (inspired by Alessandro Luigi Parravicini's Giannetto), the Minuzzolo, and Il viaggio per l'Italia di Giannettino, a pedagogic series which explored the unification of Italy through the ironic
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1875· 1 entry
For instance, he completed Racconti delle fate, a translation of French fairy tales by Charles Perrault
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1856· 1 entry
With the play Gli amici di casa and parodic guidebook Un romanzo in vapore, both in 1856
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1854· 1 entry
Published his second newspaper, Lo scaramuccia ("The Controversy")
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1848· 1 entry
And 1860, Lorenzini served as a volunteer with the Tuscan Army
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1844· 1 entry
Started working at the Florentine bookstore Libreria Piatti, where he assisted Giuseppe Aiazzi, a prominent Italian manuscript specialist
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1826· 1 entry
Born 1826-11-24.
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