by Umberto Eco · Bompiani · tapa dura · ISBN 9788845247361
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«Baudolino» is the historical and fantastical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Bompiani in hardback (526 pages, in Italian).
Baudolino, a Piedmontese peasant of great imagination adopted by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, tells the historian Nicetas Choniates of his journey in search of the legendary kingdom of Prester John, among prodigious creatures, deceptions and marvels, while the crusaders sack Constantinople.
First edition by Bompiani in November 2000, in the Romanzo Bompiani collection. Méditerranée Étranger Prize 2002.
For readers of historical and fantastical fiction set in the Middle Ages, with adventure, myth and linguistic play.
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.
