A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth cent ury's master storytellers.From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in the trees. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in a holly oak, bathes in a fountain constructed from poplar bark. An a erial library holds the books with which he educates himself in philosophy and m athematics. Suspended among the leaves, the Baron adventures with bandits and pi rates, conducts a passionate love affair, and watches the Age of Enlightenment p ass by beneath him.'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian n ovelists'The Times