As critics write suggesting interpretations, so The Nonexistent Knight is read leaving aside all its possible meanings, enjoying the adventures of Agilulf and Gurduloo, the proud Amazon Brandamante and the young Rambaldo, the gloomy Torismundo, the flirtatious Priscilla and the serene Sofronia. Among the succession of comic inventions, battles, duels and shipwrecks, we do not hesitate to discover the familiar tone of Calvino, his active morality and his ironic and melancholic contraction, his ambition for a completeness of life, for a total humanity.