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“Why did you sell your coat?” “It was too warm.” Pinocchio understood the answer in a twinkling, and, unable to restrain his tears, he jumped on his father’s neck and kissed him over and over.
“Try it and see! And in any case, if it is written that we must die, we shall at least die together.”
Carlo Collodi (1826–1890) was the pen name of Italian author Carlo Lorenzini, a pseudonym he borrowed from his mother’s hometown. Collodi enjoyed a varied professional life, attending seminary, founding a satirical newspaper, serving in the Tuscan army, and working as a dramatist, though he is best remembered for writing The Adventures of Pinocchio, and inventing the classic title character, a mischievous wooden puppet who learns—and teaches—lessons about what it means to be human.
