Alberto Longoni was an Italian artist, who started to work in 1935 as self-taught artist after the death of both his parents. He won several awards during his career and he worked for several publishers. One of his remarkable works was designing the cover jackets of the Classics of Italian contemporary literature series during the 60s, for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. In 1963, the first edition of his Pinocchio was published. It was a limited edition as a gift for the employees of Midy, an Italian drugmaker company.
The basic, black ink, single lined illustrations of Longoni give new life to the classic by Carlo Collodi, designing a new revisited Pinocchio that will stick in the readers’ minds.