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Italo calvino the baron in the trees3/15/2024 The passage quoted above is from the first paragraph of the story. It is in turns a comic and tragic novel, seen through the travels and experiences of the tree-dwelling man, Cosimo. Set in the waning years of the aristocratic 18th century, Calvino through the Rousseauesque lead of Cosimo explores the changes that occurred in Europe from the days of the Enlightenment through the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the short-lived restoration of near-absolute monarchs in Western and Central Europe. His 1957 novel, Il Barone Rampante ( The Baron in the Trees in English translation), however, might be his most picturesque. Italian author Italo Calvino wrote stories and novels of all shapes and forms from his earliest published tales in the 1940s up until his death in 1984. Cosimo said: "I told you I don't want any, and I don't!" and pushed away his plateful of snails. A breeze was blowing from the sea, I remember, rustling the leaves. It was midday, the old traditional hour followed by our family, though by then most nobles had taken to the fashion set by the sluggard Court of France, of dining halfway through the afternoon. We were in the dining room of our house at Ombrosa, the windows framing the thick branches of the great holm oak in the park. And it might have been today, I remember it so clearly. It was on the fifteenth of June, 1767, that Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, my brother, sat among us for the last time.
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