Ribald Classic: The Invisible Lover
May, 1965
Count Vestiggio of Firenze was a maker of practical jokes, one who lived for the cackle of laughter that rested like ants upon bars surrounding piazzas. In addition, it is presented here that the count was more consumed with japery than with his performance in quilt—to the dismay of his countess, Gianina the fair.The mark of many of Vestiggio's cruel arrows of jest was an honest stonemason, Calandruccio, a man handsome and virile, but surely not wise. Thus he readily succumbed to the sport of th...
