Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet - Softcover

Collodi, Carlo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1731704992 ISBN 13: 9781731704993

Verlag: Simon & Brown, 2018

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Pinocho es mucho más que uno de los grandes clásicos de la literatura italiana: se trata de una obra esencial por su deliciosa mezcla de crueldad, humor y fantasía. La marioneta Pinocho aprende de sus errores, enmienda su inconstancia y se convierte en un ser humano de provecho responsable gracias a los buenos consejos del Grillo Parlante, que es la voz de su conciencia, y los desvelos de Geppetto y el Hada, que personifican el amor paterno y el materno, respectivamente.

Pinocchio is one of Italy's literary contributions to the world. This is a beloved classic that allows readers to experience a blend of cruelty, humor, and fantasy in a single work. Pinocchio is a naïve puppet that must learn from his mistakes, become responsible, and transform himself into a real boy. He's able to do all of this, thanks to Jiminy Cricket, his conscious, and the guidance of Geppetto and his fairy godmother, who personify paternal and maternal love.

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Carlo Collodi was an Italian author, humorist,[1] and journalist,[2] widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio. Collodi was born in Florence on 24 November 1826. His mother Angiolina Orzali 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 Marquis Ginori Lisci.[1] Collodi was the eldest in the family[3] and he had 10 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 grandmother. After attending primary school, he was sent to study at a seminary called Colle Val d'Elsa.[3] An account explained that Ginori 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.[4] Two years later, he started working at the 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 published his second newspaper, Lo scaramuccia ("The Controversy").[5] Lorenzini's first publications were in his periodicals. A debut came in 1856 with the play Gli amici di casa and parodic guidebook Un romanzo in vapore, both in 1856.[6] By 1860, he published his first notable work called Il signor Alberi ha ragione! (Mr. Alberi Is Right!), which outlined his political and cultural vision of Italy. This is the text where Lorenzini started using the Collodi pseudonym, which was taken from his mother's hometown.[1] Collodi had also begun intense activity on other political newspapers such as Il Fanfulla; at the same time he was employed by the Censorship Commission for the Theatre. During this period he composed various satirical sketches and stories (sometimes simply by collating earlier articles), including Macchiette (1880), Occhi e nasi (1881), Storie allegre (1887).[7] Collodi became disenchanted with Italian politics afterward so he turned to children's literature and his first works involved translating French fairy tales into Italian.[3] In 1875, for instance, he completed Racconti delle fate, a translation of French fairy tales by Charles Perrault. In 1876 Lorenzini wrote Giannettino (inspired by Alessandro Luigi Parravicini's Giannetto), the Minuzzolo, and Il viaggio per l'Italia di Giannettino, a pedagogic series which explored the unification of Italy through the ironic thoughts and actions of the character Giannettino

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• Verlag: Simon & Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1731704992
• ISBN 13: 9781731704993
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166
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