by Umberto Eco · Harcourt · tapa dura · ISBN 9780151006908
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Baudolino is a novel by the renowned Italian author Umberto Eco, published in 2002. The story narrates the adventures of Baudolino, a peasant from northern Italy adopted by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Throughout his life, Baudolino travels from Paris to Constantinople, participating in the Fourth Crusade and searching for the mythical priest-king Prester John. With his gift for languages and his talent for invention, Baudolino becomes a narrator of fascinating and deceptive stories, blending reality and fantasy in a historical tale full of myths and legends.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
