The next volume of the illustrated collected works of Alexandre Dumas features the travel epic "Corricolo" - new adventures of the heroes of "Spéronary" and "Captain Arena". A Frenchman with a foreign passport, his artist friend, and an aristocrat bulldog find themselves in a grand labyrinth of people, events, and streets of the Neapolitan kingdom. Princesses, robbers, artists, monks, sorcerers, and innkeepers... Some of them have appeared in the saga of San-Felice and "Memoirs of a Favorite".
And as always, laughter and tears accompany the heroes of this story, along with the history of this Mediterranean country - whether it is the tale of the laccharoni, perpetually gesticulating know-it-all guides who, lacking pockets of their own, can lower a weary hand into someone else's pocket, or the legend of the fate of the fisherman Masaniello, who became a king while a king was still alive. This colorful and very lively book is still considered one of the best sources of inspiration for traveling through Naples.
