Anyone interested in Italo Calvino's work with a pre-modern cast should read "Italian Folktales". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Folktales https://en.wi

Anyone interested in Italo Calvino's work with a pre-modern cast should read "Italian Folktales". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Folktales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Folktales He spent many years recording the oral traditions of several Italian regions, and he tells them well. (If you read Italian or want to learn, the language of these tales is often simple and limited, and the stories are great! Unlike Victorian renditions of the Brothers Grimm...)