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(Don’t think about that one for too long – I’ve wasted an hour on it already).īefore being released as a novel The Adventures of Pinocchio was published as a series, appearing in Il Giornale per i Bambini. In the original series, Pinocchio dies a horrible and gruesome death, being stabbed and then hanged for his misdemeanors by his enemies. Even so, that was often enough to give rise to The Pinocchio Paradox, which states that if Pinocchio were to say: “My nose will now grow”, his statement would be neither true nor false. However, in spite of his nose’s notoriety, this only actually happens a couple of times in the book.
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Pinocchio’s most memorable feature is undoubtedly his nose and the one thing everyone remembers about him is that it grows longer when Pinocchio tells a lie. The name Pinocchio is chosen by Gepetto, as he once knew a family with that name who had good fortune, and he hoped the name would bring the same luck to his puppet. He fashions a puppet from this wood and Pinocchio is ‘born’. The story begins with a neighbour giving a talking piece of wood to a poor woodcarver called Gepetto. Collodi was somewhat of a linguist himself, and actually came up with the idea for Pinocchio after translating several fairy tales from French into Italian. Pinocchio was published as a novel in 1883, and features the mischievous adventures of a wooden puppet named Pinocchio. It is now known as Villa Pinocchio (which was up for sale for a mere $25million in 2014!). The Adventures of Pinocchio is an Italian children’s novel by Florentine Carlo Collodi, set in a villa in Tuscany where Collodi spent his childhood.