Except Othello is set in Venice 4 centuries before...
We study at the age of 6 that the Roman empire had black emperors, African born (see: Septimius Severus), but no, where Pinocchio is set and among the people he is living with, nobody knew about Othello or Septimius Severus, nobody could even read, for sure not Pinocchio, that is in fact turned into a donkey for being so ignorant and certainly there were no black fairy women.
Yeah, right. Clearly you've not heard about Othello, a Shakespearean play from the 1400s set in Italy with a black man as the titular character.