In another of his stories, Amerigo Ormea goes to the Hospital for Incurables to monitor an election.  
In one story by this author, the narrator and his wife follow their Uncle Augusto's suggestion and move to a region where Captain Brauni's inventions and the Corporation's "molasses system" do nothing to kill the title insects.  In another of his stories, Amerigo Ormea goes to the Hospital for Incurables to monitor an election.  In addition to "The Argentine Ant" and "The Watcher," he wrote about "The Aquatic Uncle" and "The Distance of the Moon" in a 1965 story collection, while one of his novels begins on June 15, 1767, when Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo sits with his family for the last time.  For 10 points, name this author of the novel The Baron in the Trees and the stories collected in Cosmicomics, who also wrote If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
In one story by this author, the narrator and his wife follow their Uncle Augusto's suggestion and move to a region where Captain Brauni's inventions and the Corporation's "molasses system" do nothing to kill the title insects.  
Italo Calvino