For 10 points, name this novel in which Cosimo Piovasco renounces his family estate and lives in the forest canopy, a fable by Italo Calvino.
The protagonist of this novel befriends a highwayman who becomes addicted to reading, and is captured because he is engrossed in Jonathan Wild. That protagonist adopts a dog named Ottimo Massimo and encounters a community of Spaniards who are able to live at Olivabassa because of a loophole in a treaty. There, the protagonist has a brief fling with Ursula before beginning a lifelong romance with a forbidden daughter of the Ondariva family named Viola. This novel is narrated by Biaggio, who describes the aid his brother gives to the secret beekeeper and smuggler Cavalier Carrega in his effort to set up an irrigation system. The protagonist wars with a gang of fruit thieves after fleeing from a disgusting snail soup concocted by his sister Battista and never returning to land. For 10 points, name this novel in which Cosimo Piovasco renounces his family estate and lives in the forest canopy, a fable by Italo Calvino.
The protagonist of this novel befriends a highwayman who becomes addicted to reading, and is captured because he is engrossed in Jonathan Wild.
The {Baron} in the {Trees} [or The {Baron} of the {Trees}; or {Il barone rampante}]