Bergamo DH: Alessia, Laura, Alfonso

In 1972 the book "The invisible cities" was published.

The main characters are Marco Polo and 55 different Cities.

55 cities are described divided into 11 categories in each category there are 5 cities the cities are inserted in 9 chapters, they are inserted not grouped by categories. The first and ninth…

The novel, that closed the trilogy, is published in 1959 and it is set in the hills of France in the time of Charlemagne, it is a historical-fantastic novel.
The narrator is Sister Theodora.
The novel is presented through a flashback and only towards the end of the book does the time of the story and that of the story coincide when Sister Teodora reveals that she is...

 The first of the "our ancestors" trilogy.
"It was on June 15, 1767 that Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, my brother, sat among us for the last time".

Thus begins the novel: the boy, at the age of twelve, after arguing with his parents who wanted to force him to eat a plate of snails, climbs a tree and decides never to go down there again for the rest of…

In 1952 the second novel of trilogy,"The half-viscount", was published; where storytelling aims towards the fantastic. In this case we have the story of a man who during a duel is crossed by a sword stroke, from which he is divided in half: into a good and a bad part. It is therefore two opposite halves who take on an independent life, have…

"THE PATH OF SPIDER'S NESTS" published in 1947 by Einaudi editor, it is set in Liguria at the time of the Second World War and the Partisan Resistance.

The story is told through the eyes of Pin, a child who works as an apprentice for a cobbler, knows all the facts of his country, who likes to joke and mock his fellow villagers, and pretends to be a…