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by Guido Morselli Translated by Hugh Shankland Original title: Divertimento 1889
Convinced that ‘we always need fairy stories’, Morselli wrote this little tale at the beginning of the 1970s. It’s an ingenious and somewhat archaic fable set at the end of the nineteenth century, with the Italian king Umberto the First of Savoy as its central character. (more...)