Cuentos populares italianos

Only a writer as wise and versatile as Italo Calvino could successfully complete the task of selecting the two hundred best tales of the Italian popular tradition, accompanied by an extensive prologue and annotated by Calvino himself. Over the course of two years, Calvino chose the most beautiful and original versions from among narratives compiled for almost two centuries, and translated them into Italian from the dialects in which they had been compiled. A true jewel of the Italian popular tradition that comes to us from the hand of one of the great masters of universal literature.