Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Non-Existent Knight - Italo Calvino Audiobook

Written by Italo Calvino
Read by Jefferson Mays
Format: MP3
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The Cloven Viscount
Written by Italo Calvino
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

Series: Our Ancestors, book 2
Length:2hrs 34min
Publisher: Recorded Books Audio
Released: Nov 22, 2017

Archibald Colquhoun (Translator)

In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures.

In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bissected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up a lavishly evil life. Soon the other, virtuous half appears. The two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, fight a bloody duel, and achieve a miraculous resolution.

The Nonexistent Knight
Italo Calvino,
Narrated by Jefferson Mays

Series: Our Ancestors, book 3
Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
Publisher: Recorded Books Audio
Released: Aug 10, 2018

Archibald Colquhoun (Translator)

An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem—now available in an independent volume for the first time—that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood.

Set in the time of Charlemagne and narrated by a nun with her own secrets to keep, The Nonexistent Knight tells the story of Agilulf, a gleaming white suit of armor with nothing inside it. A challenge to his honor sends Agilulf on a search through France, England, and North Africa to confirm the chastity of a virgin he saved from rape years earlier.

In the end, after many surprising turns of plot, a closing confession draws this sparkling novella to a perfect finish.