At one point in this novel the title character saves the narrator, his nephew, from the bite of a deadly spider. After returning home from battle, the protagonist exiles his nursemaid Sebastiana to a leper community after he burns down part of his castle. He falls in love with the goat-maid Pamela twice, and sends her gruesome mementos such as halved bats and split Jellyfi
At one point in this novel the title character saves the narrator, his nephew, from the bite of a deadly spider. After returning home from battle, the protagonist exiles his nursemaid Sebastiana to a leper community after he burns down part of his castle. He falls in love with the goat-maid Pamela twice, and sends her gruesome mementos such as halved bats and split Jellyfish. For 10 points-- name this novel about a man blown apart by a cannon shot, which along with The Nonexistent Knight and The Baron in the Trees makes up the fantasy trilogy of Italo Calvino.
At one point in this novel the title character saves the narrator, his nephew, from the bite of a deadly spider.
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