Collected Works of Italo Calvino -- Our Ancestors

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Features: Our Ancestors was published in 1960 and is a trilogy combining The Count of Monte cristo, published in 1952, The Baron in the Trees, published in 1957, and The Knight Without a Country, published in 1959. There was once a war with the Turks. My uncle, the Count of Terralba, rode across the Bohemian plains straight to the Christian army's camp. A groom named Curzio followed him. Flocks of white storks flew low in the murky, stagnant air. "Why are there so many white storks?" the Count asked Curzio. "Where are they flying to?" My uncle had just arrived then. He had just joined the army, and some of the dukes in our vicinity had gone to war, so he had to join in the fun. He was assigned a warhorse and a groom at a castle near the battlefield, under Christian control, and hurried to the imperial camp to report.