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Carlo Collodi

1826 - 1890

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Carlo Lorenzini (Italian: [ˈkarlo lorenˈtsiːni]; 24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi ( kə-LOH-dee; Italian: [ˈkarlo kolˈlɔːdi]), was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Collodi is the 152nd most popular writer (down from 138th in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from Italy (down from 165th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Writer.

Carlo Collodi is most famous for writing the children's book, The Adventures of Pinocchio.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carlo Collodi ranks 152 out of 7,302. Before him are Cato the Elder, Cyrano de Bergerac, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Diogenes Laërtius, and Emily Brontë. After him are Plautus, Yasunari Kawabata, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Carlo Collodi ranks 2. Before him is Bernhard Riemann. After him are Charles XV of Sweden, Eugénie de Montijo, Gustave Moreau, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Ludwig Minkus, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Armand David, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, and Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro. Among people deceased in 1890, Carlo Collodi ranks 3. Before him are Vincent van Gogh, and Heinrich Schliemann. After him are Sitting Bull, César Franck, Amadeo I of Spain, William III of the Netherlands, Gyula Andrássy, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Joseph Merrick, Carl Bloch, and Henri Nestlé.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Collodi ranks 220 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Eugene III (1080), Didius Julianus (133), Pope Alexander I (100), Pope John XIX (975), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), and Gina Lollobrigida (1927). After him are Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), Pope Pius I (90), Plautus (-254), Giuseppe Meazza (1910), Pope John VIII (820), and Giorgione (1478).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Carlo Collodi ranks 11. Before him are Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Horace (-65), Umberto Eco (1932), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Giorgio Vasari (1511), and Cato the Elder (-243). After him are Plautus (-254), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Catullus (-84), Carlo Goldoni (1707), Torquato Tasso (1544), and Pliny the Younger (61).

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