Portrait of Carlo Collodi, available at commons.wikimedia.org, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (accessed: June 26, 2020).
Carlo Lorenzini
[Carlo Collodi] , 1826 - 1890
Carlo Lorenzini (pseudonym: Carlo Collodi) was born in Florence, but spent his childhood in a small town called Collodi, name which inspired his pseudonym. He was a fervent literatus and from the beginning of his career he collaborated with the most prestigious Florentine bookshops and newspapers. Animated by Mazzinian ideals, he took part in the two wars of independence, in 1848 and in 1859, and founded one of the major humoristic-political newspapers of the time: Il Lampione. In 1875 he was commissioned to translate the most famous French fairy tales, including those of Perrault, d’Aulnoy, de Beaumont. From that moment on, he devoted himself to the production of works for children, and thanks to the success achieved with the publication of Pinocchio, he became the editor of the Giornale per i bambini, one of the earliest Italian weekly magazines for children, in 1893.
Sources:
treccani.it (accessed: May 7, 2020);
treccani.it( accessed: May 7, 2020);
it.wikipedia.org (accessed: May 7, 2020).
Bio prepared by Beatrice Palmieri, University of Bologna, beatrice.palmieri@studio.unibo.it
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