Carlo Lorenzini, pen name Carlo Collodi did not write only The Adventures of Pinocchio. Below is a chronological list of his other works, with title, place and date of the first edition]:
Gli amici di casa (Firenze, Riva 1856). Play in two acts, published for the first time in June 1856 (and again in 1858), after having circulated in manuscript form and been discussed since December 1953. Inspired by an episode that took place in the Florentine family of the Pucci counts (which provoked the suspension of the play when it was already being staged) it was criticised for not adhering completely to the canons of the drama. On the basis of these criticisms, Collodi republished a revised version in 1862;
Un romanzo in vapore. Da Firenze a Livorno. Guida storico-umoristica (Firenze, G. Mariani 1856). A small handbook published in September and sold to travellers in the first year of operation of the Leopolda Railway linking Florence to Livorno. It is a deliberately chaotic parody that interweaves a discursive and tangled narration on the model of the feuilleton with useful or curious information for the traveller about the various places along the railway line;
I misteri di Firenze. Scene sociali (Firenze, Fioretti 1857). Published in instalments from October on, heralded by Press reviews and praised for a style defined as “lively, spontaneous and frequently satirical”, it did not, however, continue beyond the first volume: Collodi himself observed in the book that it was impossible to write “mysteries” in Florence, since everyone knew everything about everyone else. The work combines a parody of the “mystery” genre in the manner of Eugene Sue (Les Mystères de Paris), with a harsh criticism of the moral and political decadence of Florentine society;
Il sig. Albèri ha ragione!...Dialogo apologetico (Firenze, Tipografia Galileiana, 1859). Satirical pamphlet written on commission from the circle of Baron Bettino Ricasoli, in response to the pamphlet La politica napoleonica e quella del governo toscano by the Catholic federalist Eugenio Albèri. The latter sustained the establishment of the Kingdom of Central Italy, in line with the wishes of Napoleon III who intended to assign it to Gerolamo Bonaparte. At the time, Lorenzini was the political commentator for the "La Nazione" of Florence;
La manifattura delle porcellane di Doccia. Cenni illustrativi raccolti da C.L. (Firenze, Grazzini Giannini e C. 1861). A pamphlet probably written on the instigation of his brother Paolo who managed the Ginori factory, published on the occasion of the Italian Exhibition which was held that year in Florence. The approach is the same as that of a similar work, written twenty years earlier by Albèri, but also features a convinced eulogy, which was pioneering in Italy at the time, of the policy of industrial and social progress implemented by the Ginori counts, who had set up both an elementary school and a vocational training institute as well as a mutual aid association for the workers and their families;
I racconti delle fate, voltati in italiano da C. Collodi (Firenze, Paggi 1876). This was Lorenzini’s first excursion into children’s literature, to which he was to devote most of his work in the following years. These translations were commissioned by the publisher Felice Paggi whose series entitled "Biblioteca Scolastica" was intended to provide a wide range of titles in good “Tuscan” for the schools of the newborn united Italy. The book also represents the first collaboration, which later became stable in the books for children, with Enrico Mazzanti, a Florentine construction engineer who lent himself to “illustration”;
Giannettino (Firenze, Paggi 1877). The first authentic schoolbook written by Collodi. It was a complete reworking of Giannetto (1837) by L.A. Parravicini, which had at the time won a competition that had facilitated its dissemination throughout the country, but was by then dated. While preserving the mixed structure of narration and educational concepts, Lorenzini profoundly innovated the style, in terms both of the use of language and the humorous approach to the adventures of Giannettino, a young scallywag that the schoolchildren could easily identify with. The success of the book launched an entire series, including Minuzzolo, named after one of Giannettino’s young friends, already present in the first book. Certain reviewers even considered the latter book better than its predecessor. Several books in the series were very successful, and continued to be used in the schools, with amendments and updates, right up to the end of the 1920s, and then as reading books only up to the 60s. The Giannettino series ended with La lanterna magica di Giannettino, which took its cue from the middle-class entertainment then fashionable, which was the precursor of the cinema, to range over arguments of science, geography and history – particularly the recent history of the Risorgimento – in an anecdotal style
Minuzzolo (Firenze, Paggi 1878);
Macchiette (Milano, Brigola 1880). Collection of narrative writings and sketches, written and revised over the previous decades, published by one of the most prestigious publishing houses of the time. It was not particularly popular, on account of the humorous and paradoxical slant, far removed from the literary realism then in vogue. It was however republished in a revised and amended edition by Paggi, the Florentine publishing house (of a more provincial ambit) with which Collodi collaborated by now on a regular basis;
Il viaggio per l'Italia di Giannettino. Parte prima (L'Italia superiore) (Firenze, Paggi 1880); 
Occhi e nasi. Ricordi dal vero (Firenze, Paggi 1881). A new collection of writings published in various spheres, brought together and re-elaborated for this volume that launched the "Biblioteca ricreativa" series aimed at adults. While meeting with acclaim, Collodi’s tendency towards humour and caricature was once again criticised, being judged excessive according to the current naturalistic canons;
La grammatica di Giannettino per le scuole elementari (Firenze, Paggi 1883);
Il viaggio per l'Italia di Giannettino. Parte seconda (l'Italia centrale) (Firenze, Paggi 1883);
Il regalo del Capo d'Anno (Torino, Paravia 1884) Lavish Christmas book illustrated by Enrico Mazzanti and reprinted with the title Il regalo istruttivo in 1887. It illustrated for the benefit of children the habits and customs of “exotic” people, each linked to a particular month of the year: Lapps, Siamese, Patagonians etc;
L'abbaco di Giannettino per le scuole elementari (Firenze, Paggi 1884);
Libro di lezioni per la seconda classe elementare (Firenze, Paggi 1885);
Un'antipatia (Roma, Perino 1885) Reprint of a story of the same name, already published in Macchiette: here, not coincidentally for the series "Biblioteca umoristica";
La geografia di Giannettino (Firenze, Paggi 1886);
Il viaggio per l'Italia di Giannettino. Parte terza (l'Italia meridionale) (Firenze, Paggi 1886);
Storie allegre (Firenze, Paggi 1887). Collection of stories published at various times in the "Giornale per i bambini"; outstanding among them are Pipì, o lo scimmiottino color di rosa, a long and articulated sort of self-deprecating sequel to the Adventures of Pinocchio. In a review of the book, Collodi is described as the most brilliant writer among those active in the new sphere of children’s literature in Italy. It was frequently reprinted even in the twentieth century, although generally with fewer stories than the original and the nineteenth-century reprints;
Libro di lezioni per la terza classe elementare (Firenze, Paggi 1889);
La lanterna magica di Giannettino (Firenze, Bemporad 1890);
Divagazioni critico-umoristiche, raccolte e ordinate da Giuseppe Rigutini (posthumous, Firenze, Bemporad, 1892) A collection, like Note gaie, of texts and articles (in this case all published) brought together and revised, at times significantly, by Giuseppe Rigatini (a philologist and friend of Collodi) on commission from his brother Paolo Lorenzini;
Note gaie, raccolte e ordinate da Giuseppe Rigutini (posthumous; Firenze, Bemporad 1892);
Bettino Ricasoli, Camillo Cavour, Luigi Carlo Farini, Daniele Manin. Biografie del Risorgimento (posthumous; Firenze, Marzocco 1941). Collection of occasional writings on some of the major exponents of the Risorgimento, collected and republished on the occasion of the Florentine tribute to the writer, bearing witness to his passion for politics;
I ragazzi grandi. Bozzetti e studi dal vero, edited by Daniela Marcheschi; with a note by Carlo Alberto Madrignani (Palermo, Sellerio 1989). Reprint of the novel in two parts published in 1873 in the form of an appendix in instalments to "Fanfulla"; in its turn an adaptation of the play of the same name, staged in Florence in the same year;
Cronache dall'Ottocento, edited by Daniela Marcheschi (Pisa, ETS 1990). Collection of newspaper articles, never reprinted before, published by Carlo Collodi (under various pseudonyms) in the humorous periodicals of the time.
For an extensive bibliography of the works of Collodi (including those published in periodicals) we recommend consultation of: Collodi giornalista e scrittore, edited by Riccardo Maini and Piero Scapecchi (Firenze, S.P.E.S. 1981); Carlo Collodi, Opere, edited by Daniela Marcheschi (Milano, Mondadori 1995, coll. I Meridiani).
For the biography: R. Bertacchini, Il padre di Pinocchio (Milano, Camunia 1993); Cronologia, in: Carlo Collodi, Opere, edited by Daniela Marcheschi (Milano, Mondadori 1995).
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