Carlo Collodi

Carlo Lorenzini, who wrote as Carlo Collodi after the Tuscan town where his mother was born, was a journalist and civil servant in Florence. He fought in the wars for Italian unification and started satirical newspapers. In 1881 he began publishing the story of a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy in a children's magazine. The Adventures of Pinocchio appeared as a book in 1883 and has been translated into hundreds of languages.