Carlo Collodi
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Pinocchio, by Enrico Mazzanti （1852–1910）, the first illustrator （1883） of The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Lorenzini （24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890）, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi （Italian: [ˈkarlo kolˈlɔːdi]）,
was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Collodi was born in Florence on 24 November 1826.
His mother Angiolina Orzali Lorenzini was a seamstress from the town of Collodi from which he took the pen name and his father Domenico Lorenzini was a cook; and both worked for the marchese Ginori Lisci.
Carlo was the eldest child in the family and he had ten siblings but seven died at a young age.
He spent most of his childhood in the town of Collodi where his mother was born.
He lived there with his maternal grandmother.
After attending primary school, he was sent to study at a theological seminary called Colle Val d’Elsa.
An account at the seminary shows that the marchese had offered financial aid, but the boy found that he did not want to be a priest so he continued his education at the College of the Scolopi Fathers in Florence.
In 1844 he started working at the Florentine bookstore Libreria Piatti, where he assisted Giuseppe Aiazzi, a prominent Italian manuscript specialist.
During the Italian Wars of Independence in 1848 and 1860 Collodi served as a volunteer with the Tuscan army.
His active interest in political matters may be seen in his earliest literary works as well as in the founding of the satirical newspaper Il Lampione in 1853.
This newspaper was censored by order of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
In 1854 he p...