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A famous bearer of this name is the young Venerable Carlo Acutis. He will be beatified in the Catholic Church in a few days on October 10th, 2020. Earlier today his body was put on display since it was showing signs of incorruption— despite having died 14 years ago and having a normal casket burial, he still looks as though he died yesterday.
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Carlo Ancelotti OSI is an Italian former footballer and football manager. He is currently manager of the German club Bayern Munich. Ancelotti is the only manager to have won the UEFA Champions League three times and reached four finals. He is also the first manager to have won the FIFA Club World Cup with two European clubs. Ancelotti is regarded as one of the best and most successful managers of all time.
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Carlo della Torre Rezzonico was the birthname of Pope Clement XIII (Pontificate between 1758-1769).
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Carlo Cignani (1628-1719) was a Bolognese painter.
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Carlo Carrà (1881-1966) was an Italian painter and writer on art, a prominent figure in both Futurism and Metaphysical Painting.
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Carlo Bibiena (1728-87) was a member of the dynasty Bibiena (or Galli-Bibiena) which was a family of Italian architects, quadraturisti and stage designers.
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Monte Carlo is a hotel/casino in Las Vegas and also a type of car.
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There is Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey from the reality television show Cake Boss on TLC.
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Carlo Janka is a Swiss skier.
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One well-known bearer, Carlo Buonaparte was the father of the future Emperor of France, Napoleone Buonaparte, better known as Napoléon.
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Collodi was an Italian humorist, journalist and author who is famously known for writing the fairytale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio. Carlo Lorenzini was born on November 24, 1826 in Florence, Italy. He was the eldest of ten siblings. His father, Domenico Lorenzini, was a cook and his mother, Angiolina Orzali Lorenzini, a seamstress from the town of Collodi (the town that would later inspire Carlo’s pen name. During his childhood, he spent most of his time living with his maternal grandmother in his mother’s hometown of Collodi while attending the local primary school. After completing his primary school education, Carlo was sent to the Colle Val d’Elsa, a theological seminary. However, his stay there was rather brief as he decided that he did not wish to be a priest. He then relocated to Florence where he attended the College of the Scolopi Fathers to continue his education. In the year 1844, he began working at a local bookstore called the Liberia Piatti as an assistant to a prominent Italian manuscript specialist, Giueseppe Aiazzi. In 1848 and in 1860, respectively, Carlo served in the Tuscan army as a volunteer during the Italian Wars of Independence. Around those two conflicts, Collodi showed a keen interest in political matters that in 1853 he founded a satirical newspaper called Il Lampione. Unfortunately, the government of the Grand Duke of Tuscany censored the material. Not deterred by these setbacks, Carlo began another newspaper called, Lo scaramuccia (“The Controversy”) in 1854. From 1856 to 1860, he published plays and articles that correlated to the subject of political activism. His most notable work from that time was published in 1860. It was called Il signor Alberi ha ragione! Or Mr Alberi is Right! This publication outlined Collodi’s political and cultural vision for Italy. Incidentally, it was within this work that he began using the pseudonym, Carlo Collodi instead of Lorenzini. It was during the 1870’s that Collodi began having less of an interest in politics and more of a taste for fairytales and myths. In 1875, for example, he published a translated work of French fairytales by Charles Perrault into Italian which was called Racconti delle fate. A year later, in 1876, he wrote series about Italian unification with thoughts of irony and action from the main protagonist of the series called, Giannettino. In 1880, Collodi conceived of an idea for a weekly publication for a magazine, Giornale per I bambini, called, Le adventure di Pinocchio.
Carlo Collodi died in Florence on October 26, 1890 at the age of 63. His remains were interred at the Cimitero Monumentale Delle Porte Sante. While
Most of his works were published and distributed after his untimely death, Carlo Collodi’s most famous work has remained to this very day, “The Adventures of Pinocchio.” A novel that has inspired countless recreations and interpretations on film and screen. The most famous of these adaptations is the 1940 Walt Disney film, Pinocchio.