Carlo Collodi

Carlo Collodi, the pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzo Filippo Giovanni Lorenzini, was an Italian writer and journalist. He achieved renown as the author of the novel *The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet*, often known simply as *Pinocchio*, which became one of the great classics of world literature and has been translated into 240 languages: according to estimates, the book has sold 80,000,000 copies worldwide, making the Florentine writer the most widely read and celebrated author in the history of Italian-language literature.