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Gemma Mongiardini-Rembadi

1857–1916

Best known for sending Pinocchio on another fantastical adventure, this Italian writer gave the famous puppet a fresh journey beneath the sea. Her work belongs to the lively wave of late 19th- and early 20th-century stories that grew out of Carlo Collodi’s original world.

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Pinocchio under the sea

Pinocchio under the sea

by Gemma Mongiardini-Rembadi

About the author

Gemma Mongiardini-Rembadi was an Italian fiction writer associated with Florence, and available catalog records place her life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sources found during this search consistently connect her with children's and imaginative fiction.

She is best remembered for Il segreto di Pinocchio, the Italian work behind the 1913 English edition Pinocchio under the sea. Project Gutenberg and library records show that the English version was translated by Carol Della Chiesa and published by The Macmillan Company, helping preserve her name for modern readers.

Other book listings also attribute titles such as Capitombolo di Vishnu to her, suggesting a broader interest in adventure and fantasy. A few dates in online catalogs differ slightly, so it is safest to say that she was born in the 1850s and died in 1916.