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亘丕乇賵賳 丿乇禺鬲鈥屬嗀篡屬�

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A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms

Cosimo di Rond锟�, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy--he hunts, sows crops, plays games with earth-bound friends, fights forest fires, solves engineering problems, and even manages to have love affairs. From his perch in the trees, Cosimo sees the Age of Enlightenment pass by and a new century dawn.

The Baron in the Trees exemplifies Calvino's peerless ability to weave tales that sparkle with enchantment. This new English rendering by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein breathes new life into one of Calvino's most beloved works.

320 pages, Audiobook

First published January 1, 1957

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Italo Calvino

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Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).

His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply "modern". He wrote: "My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."

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Il Barone Rampante = The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino

The Baron in the Trees is a 1957 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. Calvino published a new version of the novel in 1959.

Set in an imaginary village on the Ligurian Riviera, Ombrosa represents the author's vision as a central theme, little inclined to judgments and dull opinions.

The novel is narrated by Biagio, the younger brother of the protagonist, and is the story of a young baron, Cosimo Piovasco di Rond貌, firstborn of a noble family sadly behind the times.

The main story begins with a dispute on June 15, 1767 in the villa of Ombrosa, between an adolescent Cosimo and his father, after which Cosimo, who had quarreled with his father because he had refused to eat a snail soup, climbs the trees of the home garden and promise never to come down again in his entire life.

After the quarrel, Cosimo's life take place in the trees; first in the family garden and then in the surrounding woods.

Cosimo's life is full of adventures, from friendships with fruit thieves to days spent hunting or reading. In the life of the baron there is no lack of amorous encounters either.

Cosimo's fame spreads quickly. At first, he becomes famous as a freak show and his family is almost ashamed of him, but later he also finds a way to win the respect of the Ombrosa community.

The return of Viola, his first love, triggers a mutual feeling, always existent, which sadly ends due to a series of misunderstandings.

The love between the two is strong, even if the relationship is filled with furious quarrels.

Its end comes about in an unusual way: aged and sick, feeling the onset of death, Cosimo climbs to the top of a large walnut tree and hangs himself on a passing balloon.

Thus, without betraying his promise to never set foot on the earth again, he disappears into the sky, without even giving the earth his remains.

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April 16, 2024
Why do people rebel? What is the nature of mutiny? Grownups can be rebellious鈥� Children may be mutinous鈥�
Cosimo is just twelve years old鈥�
The wind was blowing in from the sea, I remember, and the leaves were stirring. Cosimo said, 鈥淚 told you I don鈥檛 want it, and I don鈥檛!鈥� and he pushed away the plate of snails. Never had such grave disobedience been seen.

Stuffiness and stagnation鈥� The father is a symbol of the old rotten times鈥�
Our father, the baron, was a dull man certainly, although not a bad one: dull because his life was dominated by thoughts that were out of step, as often happens in eras of transition.

Cosimo revolts鈥� And leaving the world of bipeds walking the earth he, jumping from branch to branch, migrates to the world of trees鈥� He becomes an arboreal dweller鈥�
Cosimo鈥檚 first days in the trees had no goals or plans but were dominated only by the desire to know and possess that kingdom of his. He would have liked to explore it immediately to its farthest boundaries, study all the possibilities it offered, discover it tree by tree and branch by branch.

Rebellion for rebellion鈥檚 sake is the purest form of revolution.
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1,139 reviews8,143 followers
June 23, 2019
A fantasy/farce by the master. Set in Italy around the time of Napoleon, a young man, discouraged by his boring relationship with his two crazy parents, crazy sister, friar/tutor and crazy uncle who lives with them, 鈥渢akes to the trees鈥� of the surrounding forest at age twelve and never touches the ground again, dying at age 65. Like an overly long joke, I wondered how long Calvino could pull off this story and keep it interesting, but he does it successfully for more than 200 pages.

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The Barn鈥檚 lifelong story is told mostly by his younger brother who sees him daily and supplies him with essentials, although the brother in the trees gathers wild food and shoots animals. Their father, the older 鈥楤aron, 鈥榠s obsessed by his social pretentions. Their mother, German by birth, is equally obsessed with military operations, maps and battles and seems not to mind her son鈥檚 bizarre behavior, taking it as a kind of military scouting campaign. They call her the 鈥楪eneralessa.鈥�

The forest is extensive and he lowers baskets to buy books from the local bookstore in town at the edge of the forest. When still young, his tutor comes to sit up in the trees with him. He courts young women and falls in love with one. He battles bandits and pirates, meets up with soldiers (including Napoleon), and makes friends with the marginal folks who live in the forest including homeless coal miners, fruit pickers and poachers. He even sets up a press and prints a newspaper for a time. The locals defer to him as the 鈥榊oung Baron.鈥� He acquires a reputation beyond Italy as the man who lives in the trees and corresponds with folks like Voltaire, receiving back brief, polite letters.

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Not my favorite Calvino, but a decent read.

The Baron in the Trees, painting by Italian artist Salvatore Nangione from artrabbit.com
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3,629 reviews2,188 followers
July 30, 2017
Rating: 4* of five

The Publisher Says: Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs.

My Review: This being a famous and well-studied book, I suppose the publisher didn't feel the need to do a sell-job on it. That little squib is barely a log-line!

I read this book first in ~1974, because it had a cool-looking jacket. It also had an Italian author, which was also cool. But the reading of it was a revelation because the titular Baron was the perfect rebel, firm of purpose and adamant of spirit. And all over what seems, at first anyway, such a ridiculous cause: Refusing to eat snails. I'd never had snails offered to me at that point, and I was in full agreement with the Baron. But as the pages flipped on, I could see what was really at stake was the right to set one's own boundaries, to establish a core identity by and for one's own self.

All adolescents resonate to that theme, I think, and that's why I'm surprised that this book isn't required reading until college. It would serve well in junior or senior year of high school. Anything that deals with the process and price of becoming and being an individual seems to me to be a good fit for that age. Plus it's beautifully translated, so it's easy to read.

And for the record, I ate snails the first time they were offered to me. They were delicious.
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October 28, 2022
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" 夭乇 睾亘丕 鬲夭丿丕丿 丨亘丕 "
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2,749 reviews3,163 followers
January 5, 2025

This was my eleventh Calvino, and while I don't think it's his best writing, it was such a sheer joy to read, brimming with great charm and delight from start to finish, that it's probably my favourite. Calvino has conjured up such a fantastical tale of an eighteenth century Baron living in the trees - without ever stepping foot on the ground again.

The Baron in the Trees is part fairy-tale, part coming-of-age novel, but what sets it apart from a lot of other novels simply tagged 'magic realism' is it's subtle air of parody and seriousness that gives it a deeper level. When it was written, the novel was reflecting on the not-so-distant past of Italian fascism and dictatorship, which Italo Calvino felt robbed him of his youth. Well, this is kind of him getting his own back. The novel is not narrated by the protagonist Cosimo, but by his somewhat obsessed younger brother Biagio, who sees Cosimo, fed up with the pomp of his father's demands, climb into the great oak tree in their garden and refuse to budge. It soon becomes apparent he has no intention of ever coming down. The oak connects into the grand forest of the neighbouring aristocrats, is close to the sea, and with the view from high above, the whole region is opened up before his eyes. Cosimo makes new friends, falls in love, learns handy new skills, and creates a permanent outdoors life for himself in the trees.

Basking itself fully in the nostalgic joys of childhood, Cosimo鈥檚 adventures are treated with a sort of sacrosanct level of detail by his brother. How he gets on with the basics like food, water, sleep and clothes are all carefully described in the narration, and Calvino's story is uncluttered by the trappings of a normal life that obscure our vision and can make unimportant things like table manners seem essential. In the trees, Cosimo finds a way to leave all the rotten things in life down below, just keeping with the good. He always, ironically, stays grounded, with plenty of books and studying, as he consumes the new philosophical and science progress coming from the Enlightenment era, while cautiously avoiding the rapid dangers of the dying old way of life below. He keeps his distance and his identity and when nothing seems sure, he stays hidden in the trees.

Calvino's novel is ultimately about navigating individualism, and stabilising the connection with the real world and one's self. Some could say the story becomes less effective or fun when Cosimo is much older, and that the spark that ignites the first half isn't there so much later on, but this just adds another aspect to the brilliant storytelling, it doesn't take anything away.

I loved it, and will certainly be reading it again. After being disappointed by one of his autobiographical works the last time around, it's clear to see his greatest blessing was in writing fiction to enchant. And he again pulls that off with masterful ease.
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327 reviews673 followers
May 16, 2025
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... anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from it ...
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Italo Calvino has been on my bucket list of authors for quite some time. For some reason I just never got around to reading him; there were better known or flashier authors positioned higher on the list. Then, my friend, Matthew, reviewed a work of Calvino鈥檚, The Castle of Crossed Destinies and in his review he mentioned The Baron in the Trees. I knew at that moment I needed to move Calvino to the top of my list.

Matthew said to me of The Baron in the Trees it is Charming, well-written, whimsical, oddly poignant... Calvino at his best . He is correct on all points.

The Baron in the Trees is an extraordinary, eccentric, intelligent, and sparkling fantasy concerning Cosimo, the eldest son of a noble family, who, in a moment of defiance, vows to live out his life up in the trees ~~ and does so. I absolutely loved inhabiting this strange world Calvino created.

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Fed up with the grandiosity his father demands, Cosimo鈥檚 rebellion is to climb into the great oak tree in their garden and refuse to come down. Almost immediately, Cosimo realizes he鈥檚 never going to set foot on the ground again; soon he learns the great oak connects to the grand forest of the adjoining estates. Immediately, an entirely new world is opened to him. Cosimo makes new friends, learns new skills, and creates a life for himself in the trees.

Every time you鈥檙e ready to get used to Cosimo鈥檚 new life in the trees, he meets and befriends a silly, whimsical robber or engages a daschund to help with hunting. The Baron in the Trees is a fairy-tale, coming-of-age novel and romance all rolled into one, but what sets it apart is the understated use of satire.

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Cosimo isn鈥檛 content to just live in the trees; our young hero wants to learn all there is to learn; he initially convinces his tutor to climb the trees as well for lessons, but soon Cosimo turns to books for his learning. The young Barron ends up becoming the teacher and will share his new found knowledge with anyone who has a love of learning. Eventually, Cosimo begins correspondences with the greatest minds of his time; he becomes not only a man living in trees, but an esteemed scholar, known the world over.

It is flourishes like this that make Cosimo such an enchanting character. Life in the trees is not the most interesting thing about Cosimo; he鈥檇 be a fascinating character on the ground as well ~~ though it is difficult to envision him on the ground. Cosimo has more adventures than most land lovers dream of, and he meets so many interesting characters along the way ~~ life in the trees has not limited him in anyway. Thru all of these adventures, remains Cosimo the most compelling person of all those he encounters.

The Baron in the Trees reads like a collection of parables centered around Cosimo. Like many parables, there鈥檚 definitely a sense of wonderment and playfulness, and they are very funny.

I could end this review by making some philosophical pronouncement or waxing poetical, but honestly, I recommend reading The Baron in the Trees because it will make you smile.

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588 reviews2,712 followers
December 20, 2014
"(..) surrounding buds of phrases with frameworks of leaves and clouds, then interweaving again, and so running on and on and on until it splutters and bursts into a last senseless clusters of words, ideas, dreams, and so..."

Once upon a time, somewhere between the innocence of childhood and the pluck of the bold rebel, a young Italian nobleman called Cosimo exercised his right to dissent after twelve long years of abiding by the inherent societal norms of his aristocratic title and refused to eat beheaded snails defying parental authority. In order to avoid the wrath of his authoritarian father, Cosimo climbed to the top of an enormous holm oak situated in the garden of the family state and promised to never touch the ground again, becoming the irreverent Baron in the Trees thenceforth.

This is how this tale, related from the first-person narrative by Cosimo鈥檚 little brother who adopts the role of impartial chronicler, unfolds with the recognizable paced rhythm and whimsical tone of legends and fables. Only that instead of following the moral exploration of a Little Prince and a sagacious fox, the reader is engulfed on this occasion by the incredible story of an eccentric Baron who creates a unique life among the treetops where he is free from the mundane routine and sometimes absurd obligations of earthbound existence. Cosimo鈥檚 proximity to the open skies allows him to ponder the deeper issues of his period and after devoting years to studying and reading the classics, and without ever climbing down from the trees, he achieves all sort of extraordinary feats like corresponding with Diderot and Rousseau, founding secret freemasonry societies or becoming an invaluable military strategist during the French Revolution when he meets Napoleon face to face.

Nevertheless, what makes this parable unforgettable is Calvino鈥檚 dexterity in mixing the magic connotation of Cosimo鈥檚 arboreal existence with shattering realism, for Cosimo falls sick, has a very vigorous sexual life and plays an essential part in his community, in which he amazingly manages to integrate himself in spite of the physical isolation of his whereabouts.
The dualistic nature of the story engenders a new archetypal figure, that of the active nonconformist, the revolutionary dissenter who rejects the establishment struggles for the improvement of his fellowmen in apparent seclusion. A man straddling two worlds, the utopian and the terrestrial, a man who discovers himself in every leaf, who finds reason in the boughs that cradle him to sleep, whose ideological militancy is a hotchpotch of his natural watchtower made of pines, elms and oaks, a man who symbolizes the limitless imagination that should move the world forward.
In the same way there is ascending poetry to be heard in the rustle of dancing foliage, there is metaphysical revelation without a hint of religiosity to be found in the image of a man who lived literally above his peers with both head and soul looking up at the endless possibilities tattooed in cerulean skies.

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August 15, 2023
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April 14, 2021
La prima volta 猫 stato amore perch茅 sognavo una casa sull鈥檃lbero e Cosimo realizzava un mio sogno ad occhi aperti.

La seconda rifletteva le mie passioni di adolescente: quel prendere le distanze dalla societ脿 borghese, la ribellione che corre parallela all鈥檃more per la comunit脿.

La terza 猫 oggi: 猫 la scoperta, in questa mia et脿 matura, che un libro, una storia e suoi personaggi, non ti abbandonano.
Anche dopo anni li ritrovi l矛 dentro di te.

Una spolveratina ed ecco ricomparire la Generalessa con quello sguardo severo che nasconde un morbido cuore di mamma.
Giri la pagina e ritrovi tale quale quell鈥檌nsopportabile sadica di Battista...
E Cosimo per me non ha mai smesso di andare di albero in albero ...

E鈥� stupendo questo ritrovare senza che ci sia il sapore scialbo della minestra riscaldata.
E' un rinnovarsi della meraviglia, invece.
Una scarica di emozioni e sensazioni che ti fa vivere questa fantastica avventura come fosse la prima volta.

Un godimento inesprimibile.



鈥� Si conobbero. Lui conobbe lei e se stesso, perch茅 in verit脿 non s鈥檈ra mai saputo. E lei conobbe lui e se stessa, perch茅 pur essendosi saputa sempre, mai s鈥檈ra potuta riconoscere cos矛.鈥�
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March 24, 2021
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April 3, 2020
On 15 June 1767, Cosimo, 12-year-old son of an Italian aristocrat living in stately semi-reclusion in Ombrosa, near Genoa, takes to the trees of the vast family park as a protest against paternal discipline. He lives there, without touching ground, for the rest of his days. This being that sylvan age when Europe was so covered with trees that "a monkey could have left Rome and skipped from tree to tree till it reach Spain, without ever touching earth." The story teeters on the edge of farce.

Early on Cosimo falls in with an urchin army of fruit bandits who raid the plentiful orchards under the capricious charge of a little girl Cosimo's age, Viola, of a local noble family, the Ondaviras. Viola sounds a bugle from her pony whenever the irate farmers get wind of the poaching. Soon Viola is whisked off to boarding school.

Cosimo then befriends a notorious brigand whom he turns into an avid reader, which become his downfall. The brigand's old cronies, dismayed by his new passion, are able to get him to steal again only by threatening to tear out pages of his copy of . Needless to say, his mind is no longer on his work.

Then Cosimo discovers treachery in this own home in the form of a favorite uncle, the Cavalier, who turns out to be a snitch for Moorish Mediterranean pirates. This resolves itself in a set piece that combines rich description of the landscape, a swashbuckling interlude at sea, discovery and plundering of the pirates' booty by the local poor, and the Cavalier's summary decapitation.

Cosimo courts a young Spanish noble woman in nearby Olivabassa, after whose departure he becomes something of an infatution among the nubile women in the area, with whom he carries on innumerable affairs. Once his younger brother, Biagio, the narrator, reports seeing Cosimo moving from tree to tree with a mattress slung over his shoulder. His father dies and he becomes the Baron di Rond貌 himself and as such must now oversee the administration of his vast estate. Concurrently he becomes the local raconteur, mesmerizing the populace with stories in the town square, where he speaks from a sturdy oak.

He goes hunting with his dog Otimo Massimo, who happens to be the dachshund discarded by Viola's callous servants when she left to school. The years pass. Then one day Otimo Massimo, old and gray now, is roused from his repose by a certain scent and bolts on his feeble pins for parts unknown. It turns out that Viola, now the Marchesa, widow of a wealthy landowner with considerable landholdings throughout Europe, has returned. Calvino captures the mad sexual passion and murderous jealousy between her and Cosimo perfectly.

For the Marchesa is an atrocious flirt who demands absurd proofs of Cosimo's love. Thus she kills anything she might have had with him. This section reminded me of , whose protagonist experiences a similar exquisite love and torturous jealousy.

Calvino's future postmodern work is suggested in this early novel by certain mentions of the inauthenticity of narrative. The idea that the multiple versions told by Cosimo may each possess certain true elements, so the narrator Biagio's only fidelity can be to the versions told by his brother. There are moreover passages of a swashbuckling nature, classic adventure, brokenhearted love, military encounter, etc., that both pay homage to and parody their antecedents.
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March 19, 2024
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July 23, 2021
丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷 賲賳 孬賱丕孬賷丞 兀爻賱丕賮賳丕 賱賱賰丕鬲亘 丕賱廿賷胤丕賱賷 廿賷鬲丕賱賵 賰丕賱賮賷賳賵
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賵賷毓乇囟 賲賱丕賲丨 賲賳 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 賵丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞 賵丕賱孬賯丕賮賷丞 賮賷 兀賵乇賵亘丕 兀賵丕禺乇 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱孬丕賲賳 毓卮乇
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2,273 reviews1,180 followers
April 15, 2024
That's when love makes you climb trees and come down only to put you (very momentarily) at your beloved's feet.
Between a philosophical tale and Munchausen-style adventures, this admirably written book is devoured from cover to cover. A sort of Italian Voltaire, Calvino highlights the spirit of enlightenment here through the somewhat hysterical story of a man from the end of the 18th century who, after his childhood, will only live in the trees.
This book is also a lovely tribute to trees! We fly from branch to branch, leaf to leaf, tree to tree, season to season, and finally, we see our baron disappear in the air, as mysteriously as in his appearances. Man-bird, man-mystery, an almost legendary hero in his country, as much respected as feared, Cosimo will end as he lived: above mediocrity and terrestrial heaviness.
There was a perfect reading moment, as hilarious as it provokes reflections on our way of living and our relationship with the world.
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106 reviews234 followers
February 2, 2023
Una lettura speciale. Non dovrei parlare della semplicit脿 del romanzo, potrei essere frainteso e pensare che lo considero un libro superficiale o per bambini. Se mi concentro sulla linea sottile che divide l鈥檌nverosimile dal plausibile nella storia, sono a un passo dal catalogare il romanzo come surreale.

La sua agilit脿 narrativa, cos矛 come le sue descrizione di situazioni e personaggi in maniera molto chiara e pulita, mettono il lettore in grado di percepire nitidamente le proprie contraddizioni. Molte volte la storia di Cosimo (protagonista del romanzo) diventa prevedibile. Il lettore pu貌 anticipare il ritmo della scrittura non perch茅 sia un susseguirsi di argomenti, ma perch茅 capisce e comprende molto bene il personaggio. [rileggendomi in questo passaggio mi sono capito poco, allora aggiungo una nota sotto per spiegarmi meglio]*1

Italo Calvino utilizza una cornice pseudo-fantasy del passato per raccontare i problemi del presente, coerenza logica nella struttura che lega questo romanzo agli altri due della serie "I nostri antenati": e
Cos矛, con questo Barone rampante lo scrittore ci porta in una Liguria tardo settecentesca in cui un giovane nobile decide di smettere di poggiare i piedi per terra e vivere per sempre tra gli alberi. Questo ragazzino (poi uomo) 猫 Cosimo (personaggio indimenticabile) e conosciamo la sua storia grazie a Biaggio, suo fratello e narratore.

La magia di questo libro sta nel fatto che questa idea di base passa dall'essere un'eccentricit脿 alla cosa pi霉 logica del mondo. Calvino 猫 cos矛 bravo che fa capire ai sani di mente la logica del matto. Ci fa guardarci allo specchio e chiederci: perch茅 non vivo anch鈥檌o sugli alberi? La risposta 猫 semplice: non c'猫 nessuno pi霉 coraggioso e libero di Cosimo Piovasco di Rond貌.

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Nota *1) Complementare al secondo paragrafo.
Per farmi capire meglio vi propongo un esempio pratico cos矛 diamo il Nobel postumo a Calvino e la chiudiamo qui.
Mettiamo che siamo sul torrente Merdanzo (gi脿 con questo nome al torrente, visto l'uso evacuatore da parte di Cosimo, sarebbe da Nobel automatico).
Allora, torniamo sul torrente Merdanzo, mettiamo che sia un fiume fresco e cristallino, di colpo vediamo apparire in fondo al fiume un pezzo di qualcosa buttato l矛, spazzatura o magari il risultato dei bisogni fisiologici di Cosimo, vediamo nitidamente nell'acqua pulita questo pezzo di merda e pensiamo: Ma cacchio! che fiume sporco!
Ma pensate un po' meglio: 脠 pi霉 sporco questo fiume che ci permette di vedere la spazzatura nel suo fondale o quello che ci impedisce di farlo a causa delle sue acque torbide?

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Nota *2) Grazie alla magia di internet ho scoperto che il fiume Merdanzo esiste davvero in Liguria, niente Nobel per Calvino.

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August 10, 2016
丕夭 丕蹖賳 亘丕賱丕 賴賲賴 亘賳馗乇 讴賵趩讴 賲蹖 乇爻賳丿

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趩诏賵賳賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌з� 賴賲 丕夭 賲乇丿賲 诏乇蹖禺鬲 賵 賴賲 丕夭 賳夭丿蹖讴 亘丕 丕蹖卮丕賳貙 賵 亘乇丕蹖卮丕賳貙 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿責 趩诏賵賳賴 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳 賴賲 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌丿賲蹖丕賳 賵 賯乇丕乇丿丕丿賴丕蹖 丿蹖乇蹖賳 丌賳 倬卮鬲 倬丕 夭丿 賵 賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 丌賳丕賳貙 賵亘賴 讴賲讴 禺賵丿卮丕賳貙 夭賳丿诏蹖 賳賵 賵 賳馗賲 賳賵蹖賳蹖 乇丕 噩爻鬲噩賵 讴乇丿責

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4,901 reviews14.5k followers
August 13, 2019
A witty and whimsical work by Calvino, at least the first part, the second not to much. Cosimo is twelve, the son of a nobleman is twelve when he takes to the trees after a quarrel with his father. He never comes down again. Our narrator is his you get brother and it is through him that we keep abreast of the doings of Cosimo.

Cosimo invents his own world in the treetop, a Utopia, life as he wants to live. He sees much, learns the books and so progresses in his knowledge. From the treetops he will make friends with thieves, all in love, fight with pirates and witness the French Revolution. Fantastical I know, but maybe that's the point. Not everyone fits into the society that they are expected too, and I think that is what this novel partly represents. Finding ones own ways, and yes the importance of literature, regardless of where one is living.

I enjoyed reading this in spurts, reading other things in between. I believe had.i read this straight through I think it might for me, have grown tiresome. I enjoyed this very different novel and the messages within.
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Author听1 book304 followers
March 30, 2019
賮賱爻賮賴 鬲丕 丌賳噩丕 讴賴 賲賳 丕讴賳賵賳 丿乇蹖丕賮鬲賴 丕賲貙 夭蹖爻鬲賳賽 丿丕賵胤賱亘丕賳賴 丿乇 蹖禺 賵 讴賵賴爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й� 亘賱賳丿 丕爻鬲.|賳蹖趩賴

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November 3, 2022
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇亘丕乇賴鈥屰� 倬爻乇 丿賵丕夭丿賴 爻丕賱賴 丕蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 讴賵夭蹖賲賵 賱丕賵乇爻 丿賵 乇賵賳丿賵 讴賴 丿乇蹖讴 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴鈥屰� 丕卮乇丕賮蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�.丕蹖賳 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 賯賵丕賳蹖賳 賲爻禺乇賴鈥� 賵 爻禺鬲 禺賵賳賴 丿丕乇賴 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賴賲蹖賳 乇賵夭賴丕 讴賴 丿乇丨丕賱 睾匕丕 禺賵乇丿賳 亘賵丿賳丿.讴賵夭蹖賲賵 亘卮丿鬲 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賯賵丕賳蹖賳 禺爻鬲賴 賲蹖卮賴 賵 亘乇丕蹖 賴賲蹖卮賴 賲蹖乇賴 亘丕賱丕蹖 丿乇禺鬲 賴丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖讴賳賴.
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May 8, 2025
What I've come to realize about Italo Calvino is that he never disappoints the reader no matter what he writes. This is my third work by him, and although I enjoyed the previous two reads more than The Baron In The Trees, it was nevertheless interesting and entertaining in its own right.

The Baron In The Trees is a well written fantasy. It tells the tale of an adolescent who rebels with his orthodox family and leaves them to live in trees. From that moment onwards for the rest of his life, he lives in trees. Even in death, he lives up to his pledge of never setting foot on earth. Italo Calvino is a wonderful storyteller, so I had no hesitation in picking this book of which the premise had a greater attraction. I'm happy to say I wasn't disappointed. The book held a certain charm on me.

Italo Calvino didn't write in the genre of magical realism for pleasure. I now know enough of him to understand that underneath the fairy tale, there is some deeper message that he is trying to convey to the readers. Therefore, I did some research before I read it. I'm glad to have done that for it shed a significant light on the story, helping me connect with it. According to my background reading, Calvino wrote this book primarily as a literary protest against deforestation that destroyed his beloved home city of San Remo, in the Italian Riviera. This led to another dominant theme of the role of an intellectual in post-war contemporary society.

Urban development came with heavy consequences for San Remo. Mass-scale deforestation was carried out to make way for new developments. New buildings rose and new vegetation grew, all with a commercial aim. Calvino wasn't against development. Rather, he saw its necessity. What he was against was the excessiveness of the destruction, for it robbed the city's beauty and injured nature. This is where the role of the intellectual comes to play. Calvino was of the view that intellectuals must write to enlighten the people about the importance of maintaining a respectful relationship with nature and its flora and fauna. Most of the scholars of his time viewed enlightenment as humans' mastery over nature. Calvino completely rejected the view and aligned himself with 18th-century scholars Rousseau and Diderot in advocating for the protection of forests. While contemporary scholars completely objectified nature and its flora and fauna, treating them dismissively as materials for human usage, Italo Calvino stressed the need for nature's right to protection and be respected as equals. In addition, The Baron In The Trees explores the need to break away from outdated orthodox conventions and reshape human relationships with social and natural worlds.

Italo Calvino's works are complex. Readers according to their intellect and preference will interpret his stories in different ways. Even this novel may have more possible interpretations that I missed. But as Calvino himself said it didn't matter how his works are interpreted so long as readers enjoyed his books.

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January 9, 2016

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賲蹖丕賳 丿乇禺鬲丕賳 夭蹖爻鬲
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亘賴 丌爻賲丕賳 乇賮鬲 "

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714 reviews22 followers
February 19, 2017


PARALLEL WORLDS

Most peculiar this Fable. Or at least its beginnings.

It baffled me that after the initial proposition, the notion of a young nobleman exiling himself to live in the trees of his family鈥檚 estate--a proposition that has a great deal of charm and immediately captivates the reader--, a fair amount of the early part of the novel is devoted at making the unlikely believable, and the unbelievable likely.

For the ordered and systematic transposition of the life on the ground onto its parallel life in the trees made me wonder whether the initial idea was becoming less and less lofty.

Unquestionably, the novel never stopped being a great pleasure to read. Calvino鈥檚 prose (in translation, but I like to remind myself that Spanish and Italian are sister languages) is sheer delight. Clear and balanced sentences rich in imaginative detail. But the undoing of the doing 鈥� the bringing down to the ground what had been raised above it, or rather, the raising of the ground until the higher branches seemed just another ground, perplexed me.

That is until suddenly the magic of the allegory crystalized in my mind: Cosimo, the young nobleman, as the writer, as the creator of his own world, keeping a separate existence but never forgetting the world from which he originates and which he never stops observing. Life in parallel worlds.

With this interpretation, the setting of the story during the Enlightenment received a new glow for me too. I had been noting the various references: ; ; ; ; . All mentioned with enthusiasm. Cosimo lived in the century of Utopias.

But this novel reminds us that absolutism followed the epoch of ideas, and that Cosimo鈥檚 parallel world, like most utopias, can dissolve.

What was Calvino trying to tell us about his world?
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433 reviews4,210 followers
December 17, 2019
I originally read this in Italian and enjoyed it more. It lost some of its enchantment in English - or perhaps I've grown more cynical in the interim.

A moment of adolescent rebellion provides the novel's template. Cosimo has an argument with his parents and instead of hiding in his room as most of us would do climbs a tree and refuses to come down. As adolescents we like the idea that a rebellious decision might be irreversible. Integrity seems to reside down that path. So Cosimo decides never to come back down to earth.
On the back cover blurb someone says, "A tour de force which consists in making us believe that life in the trees is as natural as life on earth." Well, this is baloney. It does no such thing. But there's a clue here of a huge trick Calvino missed. If Calvino had made any kind of effort to depict how unnatural the life on earth lived by his other characters was, as Fellini did so brilliantly in La Dolce Vita, this might have been a much more profound novel instead of a somewhat repetitive and whimsical tale. It's like half the book is missing.
Calvino spends an awful lot of time explaining in detail how Cosimo manages to survive up in the trees. He's having fun here because he's arguing a thesis that is patently preposterous. Therefore, he's pushing constantly at our powers of suspending disbelief - the mainspring at the heart of all storytelling. However, this mischief began to overstay its welcome for me and it became evident we were not going to be given any kind of compelling counterpoint to Cosimo's life in the trees.
It's an enjoyable read but Calvino wrote much better books. 3.5 stars for me.
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31 reviews27 followers
January 12, 2019
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697 reviews203 followers
May 16, 2020
亘丕乇賵賳 丿乇禺鬲 賳卮蹖賳
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卮亘丕賴鬲蹖 亘賴 亘賵丿丕 賳蹖夭 賴爻鬲..诏爻爻鬲賳 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 賳爻亘鬲丕 丕卮乇丕賮蹖 賵 賲乇賮賴蹖 讴賴 亘賴 亘賴丕蹖 胤亘賯 丕乇夭卮 賴丕 丕夭 倬蹖卮 鬲毓蹖蹖賳 卮丿賴 賵 禺賵丕爻鬲賴 賴丕蹖 賲賳賮毓鬲 胤賱亘丕賳賴 丿蹖诏乇丕賳 賲卮禺氐 卮丿賴,賵 夭賳丿诏蹖 亘乇 乇賵蹖賴 丕蹖 爻丕賱讴 诏乇丕蹖丕賳賴..
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September 4, 2019
Indomito, Cosimo, il protagonista di quest'opera, che, in spregio a un'imposizione paterna, sceglie di viver sugli alberi senza mai pi霉 posar piede a terra. 脠 il simbolo di un animo libero, pago di s茅, che sceglie di allontanarsi dal mondo e sacrifica ogni cosa (anche l'amore, in un certo senso) per mantenere intatto il solo valore che realmente conti nella sua vita, il solo che lo spinga a crearsi un proprio mondo nel mondo e a evitare indebite mescolanze con chi non potrebbe comprenderlo: la libert脿 di poter condurre la "propria" vita seguendo la propria indole e i propri principi. Sempre
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November 24, 2019
丕賱鬲丨賷丞 賵丕賱爻賱丕賲 賵丕賱乇丨賲丕鬲 賱賲賳 夭賴賯鬲 兀乇賵丕丨賴賲 賲賳 胤丕賱毓賶 丕賱卮噩乇丞貙 卮亘丕亘 賲氐乇 賮賶 25 賷賳丕賷乇 賵賲丕 鬲賱丕賴丕 賲賳 賲馗丕賴乇丕鬲 賵兀乇賵丕丨 丕賱賲氐乇賷賷賳 丕賱賲購毓匕亘丞 亘丕賱丕禺鬲賮丕亍 丕賱賯爻乇賶 賵丕賱丕毓鬲賯丕賱 丕賱鬲毓爻賮賶

賷丕 胤丕賱毓 丕賱卮噩乇丞
賴丕鬲 賱賷 賲毓丕賰 亘賰乇丞
賵賷賰賵賳 毓賱賶 賯丿賷
賵鬲賰賵賳 毓賷賳賷賴 爻賲乇丕
丕賱毓丿賱 賮賷 賷賲賷賳賴
賵丕賱卮賲爻 賮賷 噩亘賷賳賴
賷賲卮賷 毓賱賶 賲賴賱賷
賵丕賳 鬲賴鬲 賷賳丿賴 賱賷
賷丕 亘賰乇丞 賮賷賳 丕賳鬲
賴鬲賮賵鬲 賴賳丕 丕賲鬲賶
賴鬲噩賷亘 賲毓丕賰 丨賱賲賷
賵賱丕賾 鬲夭賷丿 馗賱賲賷
氐賱賷鬲 噩賲賷毓 賮乇囟賷
夭賰賷鬲 賵賲卮 賲乇囟賷
禺丕賷賮 兀賲賵鬲 賯亘賱賰
賲丕 鬲賱賲賳賷卮 兀乇囟賷
賷丕 胤丕賱毓 丕賱卮噩乇丞
賱賵 噩賴 賲毓丕賰 亘賰乇丞
禺賱賷賴 賷賰賵賳 囟丨賰丞
賳賰爻賷 亘賴丕 丕賱賮賯乇丕

亘丿丕賷丞 賲丐孬乇丞 賵賲賵噩毓丞貙 賱賰賳 賴匕丕 賴賵 丨丕賱賳丕貙 丕賱賱賶 賷賮賴賲 賷爻鬲丨賲賱 賳鬲賷噩丞 賮賴賲賴貙 丕賱賱賶 賷卮賵賮 丕賱氐賵乇丞 賵丕囟丨丞 賲賳 睾賷乇 睾亘丕乇貙 賷鬲丨賲賱 兀匕賶 賱丕 賷胤賷賯賴 亘卮乇貙 丿賴 賰丕賳 賲氐賷乇 卮亘丕亘賳丕 丕賱賲睾賵丕乇 賮賶 25 賷賳丕賷乇貙 胤賱毓賵丕 丕賱卮噩乇丞 亘賮賴賲 賵亘氐賷乇丞 賮賳夭賱賵丕 丕賱賲賷丿丕賳 賮兀賳賴賶 賳馗丕賲 賲丨鬲囟乇 丨賷丕鬲賴賲 亘賰賱賲丕鬲貙 廿囟乇亘 賷丕 亘丕卮丕 賵 噩丿毓 賷丕 亘丕卮丕.
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丕賱亘丕乇賵賳 氐丕丨亘 丕賱兀賲賱丕賰 賵丕賱兀胤賷丕賳 賵乇賷孬 毓丕卅賱丞 乇賵賳丿賵 賵賰亘賷乇賴丕 賷鬲乇賰 賲購賱賰 毓丕卅賱鬲賴 賵爻賱胤丕賳賴丕 賵乇賮丕賴賷鬲賴丕 賵禺丿賲賴丕 賵賯氐賵乇賴丕 賵鬲乇賮賴丕 賱賷賱鬲丨賯 亘丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 丕賱賲鬲卮丕亘賰丞 賷夭賵丿 毓賳 賲賯丕胤毓鬲賴 賵賷丿丕賮毓 毓賳賴丕 囟丿 丕賱兀毓丿丕亍 賵賷賴鬲賲 賱卮卅賵賳 毓丕卅賱鬲賴 丨鬲賶 賲賳 賮賵賯 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 賱丕 賷鬲乇賰 鬲賮氐賷賱丞 廿賱丕 毓乇賮賴丕貙 賷賯乇兀 賵賷鬲毓賱賲貙 賷賰鬲卮賮 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍 賲賳 毓賱賷丕亍賴 賷乇賶 丕賱氐賵乇丞 亘賵囟賵丨貙 賷夭賴丿 賮賶 丕賱丿賳賷丕 廿賱丕 賲賳 丕賱賯賱賷賱 丕賱匕賶 賷賯賷賲 亘賴 賳賮爻賴貙 賷鬲禺賱賶 毓賳 賲賷乇丕孬 毓丕卅賱鬲賴 賱兀禺賷賴 賲賯丕亘賱 乇丕鬲亘 賲賮乇賵囟 賷囟賲賳 賱賴 丕爻鬲賲乇丕乇 丨賷丕鬲賴 賮賵賯 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇.
廿匕丕 丕乇鬲賮毓鬲 亘兀丨丿 丕賱兀爻賵丕乇 賮賰乇 賮賷賲賳 爻鬲鬲乇賰賴 禺丕乇噩賴
賰賵夭賷賲賵 賴賵 乇賵丨 丕賱孬賵乇丞 .. 賷亘鬲毓丿 賱賷乇賶 丕賱兀賲賵乇 兀賵囟丨 賵兀賯乇亘 .. 毓丕卮 亘賷賳 兀亘 丕賳鬲賴丕夭賶 賲鬲爻賱賯 賵兀賲 鬲毓賷卮 毓賱賶 兀賲噩丕丿 賲丕囟賶 丕賱兀噩丿丕丿 賵兀禺 賷丐孬乇 丕賱爻賱丕賲丞 賵兀禺鬲 鬲毓賯丿鬲 兀賲賵乇賴丕 賱賲噩乇丿 賵噩賵丿賴丕 亘賷賳賴賲 賵禺丕賱 禺丕卅賳 賱賵胤賳賴 賮賰丕賳 賱丕亘丿 賱賴 賲賳 丕賱禺賱丕氐 .. 賮賵噩丿 賮賶 鬲爻賱賯 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 賵廿賳 賰丕賳 賮賶 匕賱賰 兀賱賲 丕賱亘毓丿 毓賳 丕賱兀賴賱 兀賮囟賱 賵爻賷賱丞 賱賱鬲賲乇丿 賵丕賱孬賵乇賷丞.
賰賵夭賷賲賵 賲賳 賮賵賯 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 賷睾賷乇 賯賳丕毓丕鬲賴 賵丕賴鬲賲丕賲丕鬲賴貙 卮睾賮賴 亘丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵丕賱鬲毓賱賲 鬲丕乇丞 賵丕賱夭乇丕毓丞 賵賲鬲丕亘毓丞 丕賱賲丨丕氐賷賱 鬲丕乇丞 賵丕賱乇賶 鬲丕乇丞 賵兀賳賵丕毓 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 賵廿丨氐丕亍賴丕貙 賰匕賱賰 賷睾賷乇 兀賮賰丕乇賴 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞貙 賱丕 亘兀爻 賷丕 爻賷丿賶貙 丕賱丨賲丕乇 賮賯胤 賴賵 賲賳 賱丕 賷睾賷乇 賯賳丕毓丕鬲賴 賵丕鬲噩丕賴丕鬲賴 賵兀賮賰丕乇賴貙 丿毓賴 賷賮賰乇 丿毓賴 賷睾賷乇 兀乇丕丐賴 丿毓賴 賷毓亘乇 毓賳賴丕.
丿賲丕亍 丕賱卮賴丿丕亍 爻鬲乇賵賶 賲乇賵噩 賮乇賳爻丕

賴乇亘 賰賵夭賷賲賵 賲賳 賰賱 丕賱賯賷賵丿 亘氐毓賵丿賴 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 丕禺鬲丕乇 丕賱丨賱 丕賱兀賳爻亘 亘賷賳 噩賲賷毓 丕賱丨賱賵賱貙 賴乇亘 賲賳 賲丨丕賰賲 丕賱鬲賮鬲賷卮 賵丕賱兀睾賱丕賱 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 丕賱鬲賶 賵囟毓鬲賴丕 丕賱賰賳賷爻丞 賮賶 兀賵乇賵亘丕 毓賱賶 兀毓賳丕賯 丕賱賲賵丕胤賳賷賳 賵爻噩賳鬲賴賲 賵卮賳賯鬲賴賲 亘爻亘亘賴丕 賱賯乇賵賳貙 賴乇亘 賲賳 丕賱亘乇賵鬲賵賰賵賱丕鬲 丕賱兀爻乇賷丞 賱兀賲乇丕亍 兀賵乇賵亘丕 丕賱鬲賶 鬲毓匕亘 兀乇賵丕丨賴賲 賵鬲噩亘乇賴賲 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賷卮 賮賶 兀賳賲丕胤 賲鬲卮丕亘賴丞貙 賴乇亘 賲賳 丨乇賵亘 賲賲丕賱賰 兀賵乇賵亘丕 毓賱賶 丕賱爻賱胤丕賳 賵丕賱賳賮賵匕 賵丕賱兀乇丕囟賶.

乇賮囟丕賸 賱丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 丕賱毓賳賮 囟丿 丕賱賲賴丕噩乇賷賳 賵丕賱賱丕噩卅賷賳貙 丕賱賲鬲馗丕賴乇賷賳 亘丕賱丌賱丕賮 賮賶 賲丿賷賳丞 賲賵丿賷賳丕 丕賱丕賷胤丕賱賷丞 鬲氐丿丨 兀氐賵丕鬲賴賲 亘丕賱兀睾賳賷丞 丕賱孬賵乇賷丞 丕賱卮賴賷乇丞 亘賷賱丕鬲卮丕賵 兀賵 賵丿丕毓丕賸 兀賷鬲賴丕 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞
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