Gemma Mongiardini-Rembadi

An Italian author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she is remembered today for Il segreto di Pinocchio, a sequel to Carlo Collodi's classic story. The book was published in Florence in 1894 and later appeared in English as Pinocchio under the Sea in 1913.

Library and public-domain book records consistently connect her with that title, though they do not all agree on every biographical detail: some list her as born in 1856, while others give 1857. The dates most often attached to her are 1857–1916, and her name also appears in catalog records as Gemma Mongiardini Rembadi.

Because reliable biographical material about her is scarce online, much of her public profile now comes from the lasting curiosity around her Pinocchio sequel rather than from detailed accounts of her life. Even so, that single surviving work gives her a distinct place in the long history of stories inspired by Pinocchio.