The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino classics & poetry set in a city that’s

set in a city that’s at once stunningly imagined and intimately familiar

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The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino classics & poetry set in a city that’sA gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century's master storytellers. From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in a holly oak, bathes in a fountain constructed from poplar bark. An aerial library holds the books with which he educates himself in philosophy and