Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 8 full-page plates by Telemaco Signorini, Giovanni Segantini and Silvestro Lega. A carpenter's log turns into a boy who lies, runs away, is hanged from an oak, swallowed by a shark and turned into a donkey — and wants only to be told he is good. Collodi wrote it as a serial for a children's paper in 1881 and killed his hero off, then brought him back because the readers demanded it. The Italian is much harsher than any English version, and the cricket is killed in the fourth chapter. Eight plates of Italian light and labour, from Segantini's ploughing to Signorini's Florence street, place Collodi's harsh tale in the world it came from.
Complete and unabridged, with 8 full-page plates by Telemaco Signorini, Giovanni Segantini and Silvestro Lega. A carpenter's log turns into a boy who lies, runs away, is hanged from an oak, swallowed by a shark and turned into a donkey — and wants only to be told he is good. Collodi wrote it as a...
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Carlo Collodi (1826–1890) was a Florentine journalist and civil servant who translated Perrault, founded a political paper, and wrote Pinocchio for a children's weekly in instalments, killing the puppet off at the end of one and being made to bring him back.
Carlo Collodi (1826–1890) was a Florentine journalist and civil servant who translated Perrault, founded a political paper, and wrote Pinocchio for a children's weekly in instalments, killing the puppet off at the end of one and being made to bring him back.
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