Invisible cities was written by Italo Calvino, an essayist and journalist as well as a novelist, who was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in San Remo, Italy. This book was first published in 1972 in Italian and then William weaver translated into English.
Invisible cities the brief, often fantastic accounts of the cities Polo visits. the book is framed as a conversation between the aging and busy emperor Kublai Khan.
When Polo is explaining the various cities, he uses objects from the city to tell the story.
In his first memory, he reached Diomira and he explained the beauty of the city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the Gods, street paved with lead, a crystal theatre, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower, the special quality of this city is that the days are growing shorter and the multicolor lamps are lighted all at once at the door of the food stalls.
Second memory was described about Isidora where buildings had spiral staircases encrusted with spiral sea shells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made.
Zaira city was his third memory which could tell us how many steps makes up the streets rising like stairways and degree of the arcade curves, zinc scales cover the roof.
Fourth memory, a city named Zora no one having seen it, can forget because the quality of houses along streets, and of doors and windows in the houses, though nothing in them possess a special beauty or rarity.
In fifth memory, Maurilia city which is talking about the same identical square with a hand in the place of the bus station, a band stand in the place of the over pass, two young ladies with white parasols in the place of the munitions factory.
The imagination was the extreme description of the architectural elements in the city.
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