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The Baron in the Trees
''The Baron in the Trees'' ((イタリア語:Il barone rampante)) is a 1957 Italian novel by Italo Calvino. Described as a conte philosophique〔McLaughlin, Martin (1998). ''Italo Calvino''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 43〕 and a metaphor for independence, it tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom. Calvino published a new version of the novel in 1959.
== Plot ==
The story of twelve-year-old Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò is narrated by his younger brother, Biagio. Set in Liguria near the French Riviera, the two brothers belong to a noble 18th-century family whose estate is located in the vast forest landscapes of Ombrosa. The regions of Italy have not yet united and the Ligurian Coast is not ruled by a legitimate king.
In a rebellious fight after refusing to eat a dinner of snails prepared by Battista, his sadistic sister, Cosimo climbs up a tree and decides never to come down again. He has had enough of family and decorum, his proper role as a future Baron, and of everything on the ground. Initially helped and sometimes cared for by Biagio, the young Baron eventually becomes self-sufficient but finds that the more he distances himself from others in order to see them from a new point of view,〔Pilz, Kertsin (2005). ''Mapping Complexity: Literature and Science in the Works of Italo Calvino''. Leicester: Troubadour Publishing, p. 10〕 the more he helps everyone on the earth. His love for a young woman named Viola changes the course of the lives of everyone: Cosimo, Viola, Biagio, and the community of Ombrosa.
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