Our ancestors

by Italo Calvino

*I nostri antenati* (1952/1959) è una trilogia fantastica ed allegorica sull'uomo contemporaneo, costituita dai romanzi *Il visconte dimezzato* (1952), *Il barone rampante* (1957) e *Il cavaliere inesistente* (1959), di Italo Calvino, che prese a modello *l'Orlando furioso* di Ludovico Ariosto. L'autore stesso suggerì di considerare collegati i tre romanzi, quando già tali romanzi erano stati pubblicati e affermati presso critica e pubblico, e difatti ne dispose un'edizione (per la prima volta presso Einaudi nel 1960) con i tre romanzi legati.

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