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<\/a>This illustration is from the 1911 edition by Attilio Mussino<\/p>\nHere\u2019s something you may not have known about Pinocchio, the enormously popular children\u2019s story about a perjuring wooden puppet. The tale is less fictional than we may have believed, new research concludes.<\/p>\n
Pinocchio was written on July 7, 1881, by Carlo Collodi and was published at that time in an Italian magazine as La Storia di un Burattino <\/i>(The Story of a Marionette). In 1883, the story was adapted into a book, later titled \u201cThe Adventures of Pinocchio\u201d<\/i>. The book is considered to be the most translated work of all time, only after the Bible.<\/p>\n
Researcher Alessandro Vegni has conducted extensive studies on the work comparing the story of Pinocchio (which takes place in San Miniato Basso, a Tuscan village) with historic maps. San Miniato\u2019s original name, it turns out, was \u201cPinocchio.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vegni highlights many consistencies between Collodi\u2019s story and the town\u2019s history. He also proposes that Collodi spent time in San Miniato in addition to drawing inspiration from townspeople.<\/p>\n
For example, Vegni writes first, \u201cWhen Geppetto names his puppet, he says that he knew a whole family of Pinocchi: Pinocchio the father, Pinocchia the mother, and Pinocchi the children.\u201d Additionally, he writes of the \u201cCasa Il Grillo\u201d (Cricket House), a rural building whose name may refer to the Talking Cricket and the village of Osteria Bianca (White Inn) where the pub still stands which Vegni believes inspired the tale\u2019s Red Shrimp Inn. There is also the \u201cFonte delle Fate\u201d (\u201cSource of the Fairies\u201d) whose name, Vegni argues inspired the Field of Miracles where Pinocchio planted his gold coins.<\/p>\n
Some experts don\u2019t agree with Vegni\u2019s findings. One such dissenter is Gianni Greco, but we as readers must do our research if we are to determine if any of this could be true.<\/p>\n
Collodi: His Works and His Italy<\/b><\/p>\n
Just as Pinocchio told stories (usually untrue) Danny Stefano has a story to tell, so here it is\u2026(as much truth as he knows)<\/p>\n An Anology of the story Pinocchio: by \u201cDanny Stefano\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Although Nonno\u2019s name is not exactly the same as the puppet maker in the story of Pinocchio there are many similarities:<\/b><\/p>\n This is how I read it; but you, as a reader must decide for yourself!<\/p>\n (One as in the story of Pinocchio who told stories until he could not take it anymore then became a real person). (The other puppet was a grandson (somewhat created by Nonno) and his name was Danny Stefano. (Danny was a Gemini) He also told stories, but they were told mostly in this book. Some were only known to a few and some stories\u201d as said in the beginning of the book\u201d, will only settle to the bottom of the ocean one day.<\/p>\n Here is a picture of the area where the story was written\u2026\u2026\u2026.Look at the similarity from another picture in the book?<\/p>\n<\/a>Few intimate details are known about the life of Pinocchio’s creator, the lifelong bachelor Carlo Lorenzini, who was born in Florence on November 24, 1826, and who chose to take the pen name Collodi, the name of his mother’s native town near Pescia in Tuscany. Collodi came of age as a writer in the “decennio di preparazione,” the decade from 1850 to 1860, when Italy was moving toward unification (The decade of preparation and the Unification of Italy). We do know that he, like many of his generation, was a participant in the 1848-49 battles for Italian national independence and unity and that throughout the 1850s, he was very active as a journalist, writing under a variety of names and on many topics, including politics and music.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Was Nonno named after the maker of Pinocchio? Only research or by your own feeling will you ever know? This author has no answer, but only suggests that one must only think!<\/p>\n