And Polo’s tales of cities, fifty-five in all. A narrative frame, written in italics and portraying the dialogues between the two protagonists. In Italo Calvino’s novel, the young Venetian traveler Marco Polo describes the cities he has seen in his travels to the melancholy emperor Kublai Khan. Published in 1972, Invisible Citiescollects poetic tales on the city in general. “What is the city today for us? I believe that I have written something like a last love poem addressed to the city, at a time when it’s becoming increasingly difficult to live there.” Italo Calvino, 1983
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