The city lost in the snow – Marcovaldo’s daydreams in the snow end abruptly. In the city all differences between sidewalk and street had vanished; vehicles could not pass, and Marcovaldo, even if he sank up to his thighs at every step and felt the snow get inside his socks, had become master, free to walk in the middle of the street, to trample on flower-beds, to cross outside the prescribed lines, to proceed in a zig-zag. He is married to Domitilla and they have a growing family, which includes their daughters Isolina and Teresa, and their sons Michelino, Pietruccio, Filippetto and Fiordaligi. The central character of Marcovaldo is an unskilled labourer for the company Sbav and Co. who has an affinity with nature and a distaste for city life.

In the Beginning Creating a dreamlike world starts with the first sentence: “That morning the silence woke him.” He sneezed which caused all of the snow in the courtyard into a blizzard and it was cleared. In the city all differences between sidewalk and street had vanished; vehicles could not pass, and Marcovaldo, even if he sank up to his thighs at every step and felt the snow get inside his socks, had become master, free to walk in the middle of the street, to trample on flower-beds, to cross the prescribed lines, to proceed in zig-zag. If he went on making little walls like that, he could build some street for himself alone; only he would know where these streets led, and everybody else would be lost there.

Children returned with their carrots and gave the snowman a nose which was marcovaldo.The children ran away scared. The wasp treatment – Marcovaldo cures rheumatisms with wasps. The Marcovaldo series depicts the life of a poor rural man with his family living in a big industrial city in northern Italy.

Snow fell on top of Marcovaldo. Other characters include Marcovaldo's foreman, Signor Viligelmo, the street-cle…

The wasp treatment – Marcovaldo enlists the help of his children in catching wasps, which he … The municipal pigeon – Seeing a rare flight of autumn woodcock flying over the city, Marcovaldo wants to catch it and have it for dinner but he caught a pigeon in the result The city lost in the snow – Marcovaldo’s dreams in the snow end unexpectedly. As he walked along, Marcovaldo dreamed of getting lost in a different city: instead, his footsteps were taking him straight to his everyday place of work, the usual shipping department, and, once he had crossed the threshold, the worker was amazed at finding …