In Invisible Cities, what other senses did Calvino use besides the visual?

Calvino appeals to multiple senses in Invisible Cities. At many points in the book, florid descriptions of scents and odors are used to evoke setting. Calvino includes "the odor of the elephants after the rain and the sandalwood ashes growing cold in the braziers" in a depiction of the onset of evening; in chapter five, in a piece about the lesser-seen industrial underbelly of a seemingly wealthy city, the smell of leather is mentioned.

Sounds lend another dimension to the places Calvino depicts. "In the summer the windows resound with quarrels and broken dishes," he says of Raissa; in a portion devoted to Hypatia, we read about horses neighing, whips cracking, flute trills, and harp chords. In a description of a bustling harbor, Calvino writes that "the rusted chain is heard being raised, scraping against the hawsepipe."