Carlo Collodi

Carlo Lorenzini was born in Florence in 1826, the eldest child of a cook and a seamstress. He spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in the town of Collodi, his mother's birthplace, and later took its name as his pen name. After studying at a seminary, he worked in a Florentine bookshop from 1844. He volunteered to fight for Italian independence in 1848 and again in 1860 and founded a satirical newspaper. In 1875 he translated French fairy tales by Charles Perrault and others into Italian, and he went on to write schoolbooks for children. In 1881 a children's magazine began publishing his serial The Story of a Puppet, about a wooden puppet made by the poor carpenter Geppetto who longs to become a real boy. It was published as a book, The Adventures of Pinocchio, in 1883 and became one of the most translated books in the world. Collodi died in Florence in 1890.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; he studied at a seminary as a boy but did not become a priest. Source: Wikipedia