Italy and Christmas - a vast field, brightly colorful and diverse: There is the Christ Child (Gesù Bambino), who competes with Santa Claus (Babbo Natale), who actually belongs in the North, and then there are the Three Wise Men, who appear in the form of a witch (Befana). Accordingly, the stories are inventive and imaginative. One of the most beautiful tales is about a beggar who spoke with God: Paradise is no more. We had already feared that. With texts by Stefano Benni, Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino, Andrea Camilleri, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Gianni Celati, Luciano De Crescenzo, Natalia Ginzburg, Luigi Malerba, Laura Mancinelli, Giorgio Manganelli, Alberto Moravia, Leonardo Sciascia, Mario Soldati, Franco Stelzer, and Sebastiano Vassalli.