Roberto Vezzani is the librarian of the Collodi Foundation Library that contains 6,000 Pinocchio books including "pop-up" books and a tiny edition that fits into the palm of his hand. "It's likely the ...

Renowned Italian author Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio was originally published in serialised form in 1881 in Giornale per i bambini, one of the earliest Italian weekly magazines for ...

At this point, complaining about Disney’s deathless drive to cannibalize its entire library of animated classics into live-action remakes can feel as futile as complaining about capitalism itself. The ...

Forget what you know from the cartoon. The 19th-century story, now in a new translation, was a rallying cry for universal education and Italian nationhood “Once upon a time, there was a piece of wood.