Il Gigante

A modern fairy tale that tells, with gentle irony, the adventurous day of a little boy:

“Once upon a time, there was a giant as big as a mountain and as strong as six thousand bears.
For lunch, he devoured fifteen wild boar legs, a whole roasted ox, and ten thousand flasks of Lambrusco wine. He would sleep for an entire week, and his snoring made the earth tremble all the way to the horizon. But if anything woke him up, he would spit fire and tear trees from the ground.
One day, a tiny, spoiled, and very stubborn giantess invaded the giant’s castle…”