Federico Pacchioni Italian Studies Chapman University This talk explores Italian puppetry as a technology of wonder, a set of material practices through which inanimate matter is animated with significant impact on imagination across the arts. Beginning with a philosophical reflection on puppetry as crafted animation rather than illusion, the talk introduces major traditions of Italian puppetry—burattini, Pulcinella, opera dei pupi, and marionettes—noting their material nature and their migration into literature and cinema. Pinocchio serves as a conceptual hinge within this…