Our Ancestors: Cloven Viscount; Baron in the Trees; Non-Existent Knight by Italo Calvino

Our Ancestors: Cloven Viscount; Baron in the Trees; Non-Existent Knight

I nostri antenati #1-3

Italo Calvino with Archibald Colquhoun (Translator)

382 pages • first pub 1960 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous reflective slow-paced
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Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images ar...

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