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Eugenio Cherubini

Best known for sending Pinocchio on a wildly different journey, this Italian writer worked in the early 20th century and left behind a curious corner of children's literature. His name is most closely linked with Pinocchio in Africa, a sequel that shows how strongly Collodi's original story continued to inspire new adventures.

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Pinocchio in Africa

Pinocchio in Africa

by Eugenio Cherubini

About the author

Eugenio Cherubini was an Italian writer active in the early 1900s. Reliable catalog and reference sources confirm him as the author of Pinocchio in Africa and identify him as a writer working in Italian.

He is chiefly remembered for Pinocchio in Affrica (published in 1903 in Italian, later translated as Pinocchio in Africa), one of the many early sequels inspired by Carlo Collodi's famous puppet. Modern scholarship notes that the book belongs to a larger wave of "Pinocchio" continuations that appeared in Italy in the decades after the original became a classic.

Very little biographical detail appears to be readily confirmed in the sources I found, so his life is somewhat obscure today. What does stand out is his place in the afterlife of Pinocchio: not as Collodi's rival, but as one of the writers who helped show how far that character could travel in readers' imaginations.