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butterfly house with Lepidoptera species from ecosystems all over the world. A
place for fantasies that even includes the so-called “fairytale road that leads meandering Pinocchio pilgrims from Collodi to the nearby town of Pescia, over hillsides
where wanderers can daydream in their own stride. A pathway like that to the Land
of Oz, or Through a Looking Glass, with works of art interspersed between streams,
deep forests, a monastery, and mysterious diversions.
And along the very fortress that Michelangelo helped protect is the Porte Sante,
a cemetery designed in 1854 that holds the body of Carlo “Collodi” Lorenzini, in
addition to other poets, sculptors, painters, filmmakers, and notable individuals of
the region.
An Italian national organization devoted to Collodi’s genius (The Fondazione
Carlo Collodi) has amalgamated an inventory of the astounding proliferation of
translations, adaptations, illustrations, imaginative by-products, sequels, and interpretations of Pinocchio from 1883 to the present. It is a formidable legacy encompassing video games and comic books, plays, musicals, toys, memorabilia,
animation of every sort, movies, television series, and countless language editions.
Pinocchio has breathed life into thousands of subsequent renditions and works of art
indebted to this remarkable creation.
From an Astro Boy in Japan, Steven Spielberg’s film AI – Artificial Intelligence,
rapper and jazz saxophonist renditions (including a piece by Wayne Shorter recorded
Fig. 44.2 Pinocchio at Stromboli’s Theatre. (Illustration by Attilio Mussino, 1926, The Adventures
of Pinocchio, by C. Collodi, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1926)
44.4 Ecollodiology
butterfly house with Lepidoptera species from ecosystems all over the world. A
place for fantasies that even includes the so-called “fairytale road that leads meandering Pinocchio pilgrims from Collodi to the nearby town of Pescia, over hillsides
where wanderers can daydream in their own stride. A pathway like that to the Land
of Oz, or Through a Looking Glass, with works of art interspersed between streams,
deep forests, a monastery, and mysterious diversions.
And along the very fortress that Michelangelo helped protect is the Porte Sante,
a cemetery designed in 1854 that holds the body of Carlo “Collodi” Lorenzini, in
addition to other poets, sculptors, painters, filmmakers, and notable individuals of
the region.
An Italian national organization devoted to Collodi’s genius (The Fondazione
Carlo Collodi) has amalgamated an inventory of the astounding proliferation of
translations, adaptations, illustrations, imaginative by-products, sequels, and interpretations of Pinocchio from 1883 to the present. It is a formidable legacy encompassing video games and comic books, plays, musicals, toys, memorabilia,
animation of every sort, movies, television series, and countless language editions.
Pinocchio has breathed life into thousands of subsequent renditions and works of art
indebted to this remarkable creation.
From an Astro Boy in Japan, Steven Spielberg’s film AI – Artificial Intelligence,
rapper and jazz saxophonist renditions (including a piece by Wayne Shorter recorded
Fig. 44.2 Pinocchio at Stromboli’s Theatre. (Illustration by Attilio Mussino, 1926, The Adventures
of Pinocchio, by C. Collodi, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1926)
44.4 Ecollodiology