Rome has the Coliseum, Venice its canals. And then there's Collodi, a tiny Tuscan town that lays claim to something just as famous: Pinocchio. Here, the boy-puppet is a giant, a patron saint, ...

Collodi, Italy, birthplace of the beloved wooden puppet, honors its literary roots with parks, art and global recognition.

COLLODI, Province of Pistoia — When most people travel to Tuscany, they will spend time inside museums in Florence. They go to Pisa to see the Leaning Tower. They get behind the wheel of a Fiat 500 ...

We learn in the biographical note to Everyman’s new edition of Pinocchio that Carlo Collodi never had children. Any reader of this book will understand why. Collodi loathed children. Boys especially, ...

The tale of the wooden puppet Pinocchio created by a carpenter in Florence may arguably be the most widely known children's tale. Now new research reveals that the story, written by Carlo Collodi 130 ...

Iassen Ghiuselev brings the famous puppet-turned-boy to life in Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, trans. by Carol della Chiesa. His b&w drawings possess the detail and craftsmanship of woodcuts, his ...

Author Carlo Collodi may have drawn inspiration from one—or a few—female figures in his life Antonia Mufarech - Correspondent The Blue-Haired Fairy and the Talking Cricket try to make Pinocchio drink ...