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Mister Geppetto (/dʒəˈpɛtoʊ/ jə-PET-oh, Italian: [dʒepˈpetto]),[1] or Mastro Geppetto, is a fictional character in the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Pinocchio. He wears a yellow wig resembling cornmeal mush (called polendina), and consequently his neighbors call him "Polendina" to annoy him. The name Geppetto is a Tuscan diminutive of the name Giuseppe (Italian for Joseph).