Our Ancestors: Cloven Viscount, Baron in the Trees, and Non-Existent Knight.

Author

Italo Calvino

Original Works

The Baron in the Trees·The Nonexistent Knight·The Cloven Viscount

Translator

Archibald Colquhoun

Foreword / Afterword

Italo Calvino

Format

Collection / Anthology

Language

English

Year

1992

Publisher

Mandarin Paperbacks

Country

United States

Pages

400

ISBN

978-0749399375

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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 are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master storyteller.— Google Books