. "The Adventures of Pinocchio" . . . . "Pinocchio"@en . . . "Pinocchio (/p\u026A\u02C8no\u028Akio\u028A/; Italian: [pi\u02C8n\u0254kkjo]), the name a variant of common \"pinolo\" (pine seed), but even pet name for Giuseppe (Joseph), which Geppetto is too, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), by the Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village near Florence, he was created as a wooden puppet but dreamed of becoming a real boy."@en . . .