ITAL2110 ITALIAN LITERATURE 1860-1925

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CARLO COLLODI, LE AVVENTURE DI PINOCCHIO

Collodi (the pseudonym of journalist Carlo Lorenzini) wrote Le avventure di

Pinocchio in language inflected with Tuscan dialect. You will need to work quote
hard on tracking down individual words in a large dictionary. The endnotes to the
edition of the book included in Carlo Collodi, Opere, edited by D. Marcheschi
(Milan, 1995) are very helpful.

Asor Rosa, A., ‘Le voci di un’Italia bambina (“Cuore” e “Pinocchio”)’, pp. 925-940
of Romano, R. and Vivanti, C. (eds), Storia d’Italia, vol. IV, Dall’Unità a oggi,
tomo 2, Turin, 1975. Compares and contrasts the two greats of Italian children’s literature in this
period in their social context.
Asor Rosa, A., ‘Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino’, in Asor Rosa, A.
(ed.), Letteratura Italiana. Le Opere, vol. III, Dall’Ottocento al Novecento, Turin,
1995. Fine in-depth analysis.
Baldini, A., ‘La ragion politica di Pinocchio’, in Fine Ottocento, Florence, 1947.
Bertacchini, R., Collodi narratore, Pisa, 1961.
Calvino, I. ‘Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio’, in Saggi. 1945-1985, Milan, 1995, vol. 1, pp.
801-7. Some useful scattered thoughts.
C’era una volta un pezzo di legno. La simbologia di Pinocchio, Milan, 1981.
Collection of essays, some of them very far-fetched, but which do give an idea of how Pinocchio always gives
rise to new interpretations.
Fabbri, P. and Pezzini, I., Le avventure di Pinocchio. Tra un linguaggio e l’altro,
Rome, 2002. See the essays by Pezzini and D’Angelo.
Garroni, E., Pinocchio uno e bino, Bari, 1975. Classic account of the “two Pinocchios” thesis.
Genot, G., L’analyse structurelle de Pinocchio, Florence, 1970.
Manganelli, G., Pinocchio: un libro parallelo, Turin, 1977.
Pancrazi, P. (ed.), Tutto Collodi per i piccoli e per i grandi, Florence, 1948.
Perella, N. J., ‘Popular fiction between Italian Unification and World War I’, in P.
Bondanella and A. Ciccarelli (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Italian
Novel, Cambridge, 2003. Introductory survey of themes.
Perella, N. J., has written a useful introduction and a body of notes to his parallel
text edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio, Berkeley, 1986.
Spinazzola, V., Pinocchio & C., Milan, 1997.
West, R., The Persistent Puppet: Pinocchio’s Heirs in Contemporary Fiction and
Film, www.fathom.com/course/72810000/ Interesting introductory internet coursebook
from the University of Chicago.

There are two useful general guides to children’s literature; both are heavily
biased towards the English language, but both nonetheless do offer many useful
suggestions for the critical issues in children’s fiction:

Hunt, P., Children’s Literature, Oxford, 2001.

Hunt, P. (ed.), International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature,
London, 1996.