Lamberto Lamberto Lamberto
By: Gianni Rodari ; translated by Antony Shugaar
Contributors: Shugaar, Antony
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781935554615
Work titles: C'era due volte il barone Lamberto
Description: Baron Lamberto is very rich - and very ill. He owns 26 banks and has been diagnosed with 26 deadly ailments. Only his butler, Anselmo, remembers them all. On the advice of an Egyptian sage, Lamberto hires an army of servants to repeat his name over and over again. It's a recipe, he's told, for eternal life - and surprisingly it works. But Lamberto's newfound youth is put at risk when a terrorist group lays siege to his private island in the mountains near Lake Orta. The Baron's army of bank directors is held hostage and an international media spectacle starts.