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Book · by Italo Calvino · first published 1959

How many pages is Il Barone Rampante?

Il Barone Rampante by Italo Calvino has a median of 254 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 217 to 288 pages.

Median pages
254
9 editions counted
Range
217–320
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
70k
at 275 words per page

How long will Il Barone Rampante take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
4 h 29 min
At 30 min a day
9 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

25030019601980200020201959: 217 pages1959: 217 pages1959: 254 pages1959: 255 pages1965: 241 pages1977: 217 pages2017: 320 pages2017: 320 pages2021: 288 pagesmedian 254
250300197520001959: 217 pages1959: 217 pages1959: 254 pages1959: 255 pages1965: 241 pages1977: 217 pages2017: 320 pages2017: 320 pages2021: 288 pagesmedian 254
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 50 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Penguin Random House–288OL29436860M
2017Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers–320OL28885047M
2017Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company–320OL29744383M
1977Harcourt Brace Jovanovich–217OL4897247M
1965Einaudi–241OL20819874M
1959Random House–217OL19066814M
1959Random House–217OL6273178M
1959Collins–254OL18728462M

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Questions

How many pages is Il Barone Rampante?
About 254 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 217 to 320 pages.
How long does it take to read Il Barone Rampante?
About 4 h 29 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is Il Barone Rampante?
Roughly 70,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).