El barón rampante

When he was twelve years old, Cosimo Piovasco, Baron of Rondò, in an act of rebellion against his family's rigid discipline, climbed an oak tree in his garden. That same day, June 15, 1767, he met the daughter of the Marquesses of Ondarivia and announced his intention never to come down from the trees. From then until the end of his life, Cosimo remained true to that principle. From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th, the Baron participated in both the French Revolution and the Napoleonic invasions, but without ever abandoning that necessary distance that allowed him to be both inside and outside of events at the same time.