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The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Twelve-year old Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò is the willful son of a stuffy Italian baron. Biped's Monitor is a fragmented interpretation of Italo Calvino's magical folktale The Baron in the Trees, created for the trees, avenues and chapel of Nunhead Cemetery in South-East London. What have you done?' 'Oh, I've done things,' he began saying. For a good while I have been interested in the idea of gravity vs. It is the origin of the cycle 365 Trees, inspired by Italo Calvino's novel "The Baron in the Trees" from 1957. The young artist from Cracow, starting from 25th September 2009, climbed one tree a day for the whole following year. I planted one of these at my mom's place and I wish I had one too. It is absolutely breathtaking: Donating = Loving. Beautiful flowers followed by tasty fruit. A Red Baron peach tree blooming at a friend's house. One day, he climbs up a tree and vows never to come down, thus beginning a series of fantastic adventures. Levitation and how these two opposite phenomenons are interconnected. The final Nascimbene/Calvino installment, The Baron in the Trees, came in 2005 and is virtually impossible to find online, but your local library might have a copy. Select Passages from Calvino's Baron in the Trees.