The famous author of Pinocchio presented in these cheerful Stories (1887-1890) a motley childhood world with a sense of humor full of satirical connotations.

The Florentine writer Carlo Lorenzini (1826-1890), universally known by his pseudonym Carlo Collodi, the author of the wildly popular stories of Pinocchio (appeared between 1881 and 1883). Collodi was a journalist, theater and literary critic and finally author of children's literature. In 1881 he began publishing the first deliveries of Pinocchio and stories that form the allegre Storie. This children's literature will bring good economic returns. These cheerful stories repeated with variations and modulations a number of issues that encourage within his masterpiece and, despite appearances, away from moralizing fables: for those who want to see it, the ability to Collodi as a writer makes traslucir to through-the anecdote told cheerful story set in a seemingly innocuous world of children and a sharp satire on the social conditions prevailing at the time.