Atlante Pinocchio

For the first time, the book reconstructs the diffusion of Pinocchio around the world and the international 'fortune' that the story of the puppet and its protagonist have met with, from its publication in book form (1883) to the present day. Divided into 96 chapters and embellished with six rich iconographic paths, the Atlas recounts the long journey of a book that today continues to speak to readers with different cultures, languages, religions and traditions. The focus of the volume is on the complete translations of Collodi's book, but there are many references to the presence of Pinocchio in the collective imagination and in the social and cultural life of peoples, the television and film versions, the illustrations that have accompanied the various editions and the theatrical adaptations. From the European Pinocchio to the Asian one, from the 'black' puppet of many of the work’s translations into the African languages to the character that moves between North America, Latin America and Oceania, the Atlas traces the history and geography of a literary text that has known (and continues to know) no boundaries, among translations faithful to the original, adapted versions, rewritings, and abridged versions. The Pinocchio Atlas presents itself as a true critical and historiographical enterprise, capable of recounting a book that originated in Italy but has penetrated - like no other literary text - every corner of the planet; an enterprise made possible by the collaboration of more than 140 scholars. Its arrival in bookshops, ideally joins two important anniversaries: the 140th anniversary of the first volume edition of Pinocchio (2023) and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Carlo Collodi (2026).