Our Ancestors

Our Ancestors

by Italo Calvino
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Publisher:
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Genre:Italian fiction
Language: en
Published:1998
ISBN13:9780099430865
ISBN10:009943086X

About the Book

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.