Our Ancestors: Italo Calvino

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.