𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗼 is a cultural icon. he is one of the most reimagined characters in children's literature. his story has been adapted into many other media, notably the 1940 disney film pinocchio. collodi often used the Italian tuscan dialect in his book. the name 𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗼 is a combination of the Italian words pino (pine), and occhio (eye) pino is also an abbreviation of giuseppino, the diminutive for giuseppe (the Italian form of joseph) one of the men who greatly influenced collodi in his youth was giuseppe 𝙖𝙞𝙖𝙯𝙯𝙞, a prominent Italian manuscript specialist who supervised collodi at the libreria piatti bookshop in florence. geppetto, the name of 𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗼𝘀 creator and “father,” is the diminutive for geppo, the tuscan pronunciation of ceppo, meaning a log, stump, block, stock or stub.