Novels in Translation: The Adventures of Pinocchio
The Adventures of Pinocchio is an Italian children’s novel by Florentine Carlo Collodi, set in a villa in Tuscany where Collodi spent his childhood. It is now known as Villa Pinocchio (which was up for sale for a mere $25million in 2014!). Collodi was somewhat of a linguist himself, and actually came up with the idea […]