The Terrible Dogfish
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The Terrible Dogfish is a shark-like sea-monster, which appears in Carlo Collodi's 1883 book The Adventures of Pinocchio as the final antagonist. It can also mean “The Terrible Shark,” since pesce-can
Il Terrìbile Pesce-càne swallows Pinocchio, as drawn by Enrico Mazzanti.
Pinocchio carries Geppetto on his back and swims out of its mouth. A 1902 drawing by Carlo Chiostri.
In The Adventures of Pinocchio.
The Adventures of Pinocchio
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The Adventures of Pinocchio, commonly shortened to Pinocchio, is an 1883 children's fantasy novel by Italian author Carlo Collodi. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette name
The Terrible Dogfish
…The Terrible Dogfish (Italian: il Terribile Pesce-cane) is a shark-like sea-monster, which appears in Carlo Collodi's 1883 book The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio) as the final antagonist. It can also mean “The Terrible Shark,” since pesce-cane translates to both shark and dogfish. It…
Illustration from 1883 edition by Enrico Mazzanti
Carlo Collodi
The third chapter of the story published on 14 July 1881, in the Giornale per i bambini
Some of the more than 260 translations of the book displayed at the Accademia della Crusca library, Florence