by Umberto Eco · Gradiva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789897850837
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«História das Terras e dos Lugares Lendários» is Umberto Eco's essay, published by Gradiva in paperback (480 pages, in Portuguese).
Umberto Eco explores humanity's imaginary geography: fictional places like Gulliver's islands or Sherlock Holmes's apartment, and territories once believed real, such as Atlantis, the kingdom of Prester John, or El Dorado. The work shows how these myths inspired art, legends, and expeditions that led to the discovery of new lands.
Originally written in Italian as «Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari» (2013); this Portuguese edition was published in 2021.
Recommended for readers of historical and cultural essays, with an interest in mythology, art, and the imaginaries that have driven history.
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.
