Three Sicilian stories by Salvo D’Agostino[aut]D’Agostino Salvo, published here for the first timeTime—except for the simple and beautiful handmade limited edition by Biblioteca Plautilla[aut]Biblioteca Plautilla—belong to those familiar and informal, non-academic manuscripts that our father irregularly produced in the last years of his long life (Cfr. Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8). Starting with the birth of the grandchildren, over timeTime they became a sort of periodic but irregular correspondenceCorrespondence: Letter to my children and grandchildren, Strange stories, Tolomeo the cat and a frog named Filadelfa […] inspired by his moralizing eighteenth-century spirit and his passion for teaching lessons, they were also animated, in their various forms, by the desire of communicating his indisputable knowledge and, last but not least, by the fatherly desire to amend our poor intellectualIntellectual training. But these stories can also be seen as faded photographs of the home land he left behind in his youth and which reveal, with evident nostalgia, the yearning for a religious communion with Nature (The Christmastime fig three)[aut]Christmastime fig three, the passion for its extreme manifestations (Mount[aut]Mount Etna)[aut]Etna and also his lifelong interest in the historyHistory of technologyTechnology (the Saie[aut]Saie). In the end, the reader will find the three talesTales in original Italian versions.