EDUCATION BY THE WORD: GIANNI RODARI IN THE TEXTS AND CONTEXTS OF ITALIAN AND SOVIET CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Abstract

The article examines the early stages of the work of Italian children’s poet, prose writer, and editor of children’s periodicals, Gianni Rodari. The authors analyze Rodari’s work in the context of the postwar situation in Italy; the authors considers Rodari’s relations with Soviet Russia and the sources of the popularity of his work in the Russian translations on the example of the tale-tale “The Adventures of Cipollino”.

Keywords: Mussolini’s Italy (1922–1945), reconstruction of children’s
literature and periodicals, postwar children’s literature, Marshak, “The Adventures of Cipollino”, translations from Italian, playful poetry