In chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio, Geppetto Geppetto Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Pinocchio. He wears a yellow wig resembling cornmeal mush (called polendina), and consequently his neighbors call him "Polendina" to annoy him. The name Geppetto is a Tuscan diminutive of the name Giuseppe (Italian for Joseph). https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Geppetto Geppetto - Wikipedia shapes the piece of wood Mastro Cherry had given him into a marionette. Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that impertinent nose.