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Pinocchio (/ p ɪ ˈ n oʊ k i oʊ / ⓘ pin-OH-kee-oh, [1] Italian: [piˈnɔkkjo]) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. [2] [3] Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan village.
The Adventures of Pinocchio (/ p ɪ ˈ n oʊ k i oʊ / ⓘ pin-OH-kee-oh; Italian: Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino [le avvenˈtuːre di piˈnɔkkjo ˈstɔːrja di um buratˈtiːno,-dj um-], i.e. "The Adventures of Pinocchio. Story of a Puppet"), commonly shortened to Pinocchio, is an 1883 children's fantasy novel by Italian ...
Geppetto (/ dʒ ə ˈ p ɛ t oʊ / jə-PET-oh; Italian: [dʒepˈpetto]) [1] is a fictional character in the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Pinocchio.
The Green Fisherman (Italian: Il Pescatore Verde) is a fictional character who appears in Carlo Collodi's book The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio). According to Giacomo Maria Prati, The Green Fisherman is one example of the story's parallels with classical mythology , stating that the Fisherman is evocative of the cyclops ...
The Fox and the Cat illustrated by Carlo Chiostri. Pinocchio encounters the two after leaving Mangiafuoco's theatre with five gold sequins, whereupon the Fox claims to know Pinocchio's father Mister Geppetto and proposes to Pinocchio to visit the Land of Barn Owls (Paese dei Barbagianni) and thence to a 'Field of Miracles' (Il campo dei Miracoli), where coins can be grown into a money ...
The Fairy with Turquoise Hair (Italian: la Fata dai Capelli Turchini), often simply referred to as the Blue Fairy (La Fata Turchina), is a fictional character in the 1883 Italian book The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, [1] repeatedly appearing at critical moments in Pinocchio's wanderings to admonish the little wooden puppet to avoid bad or risky behavior.
Lampwick appears in a 1972 Italian animated adaptation titled The Adventures of Pinocchio. Like the original story, he is a lazy boy who dislikes school and is Pinocchio's closest friend there. As in the novel, he convinces Pinocchio to come to Toyland with him, where they play many games, eat junk food, and go on amusement rides. Eventually ...
In the English version he is renamed The Fire-Eater, translation of his original Italian name. He is voiced by Michele Gammino in the Italian version and by Bob Holt in the English dub. In Pinocchio's Christmas, a character named Maestro Fire-Eater (voiced by Alan King) is loosely based on Mangiafuoco. Like in the book, his role is small and is ...