Pinocchio, The Adventures of
Pinocchio, The Adventures of (Le avventure di Pinocchio).Carlo Collodi first published his vivacious masterpiece as a serial story in a children's weekly paper, Il Giornale per i bambini, between 1881 and 1883. In February 1883 it was issued as a volume with black‐and‐white illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti, who had collaborated with Collodi in earlier work. The serial was originally entitled La storia di un burattino (The Story of a Puppet) and ended tragically with chapter 15; the definitive title was adopted on the relaunching of the serial, the whole eventually reaching 36 short chapters. Pinocchio is a fairy story not only because the ‘Fairy with indigo hair’ is prominent as a kind of fairy godmother to the puppet who longs to become a real boy; in addition, many of the other characters and some narrative devices link it to the age‐old web of oral and literary storytelling concerning...
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