by Italo Calvino · Educaula · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415954422
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«El baró rampant» is the novel by Italo Calvino published by Educaula in paperback, with 384 pages.
Cosimo Piovasco di Rondó, son of a nobleman of Ombrosa, climbs a tree at the age of twelve in protest against family authority and decides never to set foot on the ground again. From the treetops he witnesses the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Restoration; his life is marked by freedom, helping the most disadvantaged and friendship with Napoleon.
Written in 1957, it is the second novel of the trilogy «Nuestros antepasados» (I nostri antenati), with a translation by Xavier Lloveras Puchercós. Volume 98 of the Educació 62 collection.
For students and the general public; includes supplementary didactic material.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. 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).
