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The "Golden, Holy Cord of Calculation": Collodi's Second Thoughts on Pinocchio

The "Golden, Holy Cord of Calculation": Collodi's Second Thoughts on Pinocchio THE COMPAKATIST THE "GOLDEN, HOLY CORD OF CALCULATION": COLLODI'S SECOND THOUGHTS ON PINOCCHIO Dan Latimer I. Introduction Neither tradition nor commentary has seen fit to pass down to us much information on Carlo Collodi, born Carlo Lorenzini in 1826 in Florence, Tuscany, eventual author of the great children's book The Adventures of Pinocchio, serialized from July 1881 in II giornale per i bambini, a weekly children's magazine, and entitled there "Storia di un burattino" [Story of a Puppet].1 In 1883 the two-year cycle of stories appeared in book form as Le Avventure di Pinocchio, eventually becoming for the critic Glauco Cambon one of the three most influential works of Italian literature, worthy of the distinguished company of Dante's Divine Comedy and Manzoni's The Betrothed (50). For Pietro Citati, Collodi's book is the greatest work of Tuscan letters since Galileo (214). This is high praise from the savants. What do they mean? It would be foolish of course to claim that Collodi approaches Dante's encyclopedic prestige that made him for Ezra Pound "unexcelled" (157), or for Stefan George "the father of all modern literature" (Auerbach 174). Nor does Collodi show the absolute perfection of soul that Goethe admired in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

The "Golden, Holy Cord of Calculation": Collodi's Second Thoughts on Pinocchio

The Comparatist , Volume 28 (1) – Oct 3, 2004

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THE COMPAKATIST THE "GOLDEN, HOLY CORD OF CALCULATION": COLLODI'S SECOND THOUGHTS ON PINOCCHIO Dan Latimer I. Introduction Neither tradition nor commentary has seen fit to pass down to us much information on Carlo Collodi, born Carlo Lorenzini in 1826 in Florence, Tuscany, eventual author of the great children's book The Adventures of Pinocchio, serialized from July 1881 in II giornale per i bambini, a weekly children's magazine, and entitled there "Storia di un burattino" [Story of a Puppet].1 In 1883 the two-year cycle of stories appeared in book form as Le Avventure di Pinocchio, eventually becoming for the critic Glauco Cambon one of the three most influential works of Italian literature, worthy of the distinguished company of Dante's Divine Comedy and Manzoni's The Betrothed (50). For Pietro Citati, Collodi's book is the greatest work of Tuscan letters since Galileo (214). This is high praise from the savants. What do they mean? It would be foolish of course to claim that Collodi approaches Dante's encyclopedic prestige that made him for Ezra Pound "unexcelled" (157), or for Stefan George "the father of all modern literature" (Auerbach 174). Nor does Collodi show the absolute perfection of soul that Goethe admired in

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