by Umberto Eco · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099422396
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«Baudolino» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Random House UK in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Set in 1204, during the sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade, Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and tells him his life story: from his childhood as a peasant in northern Italy to his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, in a tale that weaves together history, myth and invention.
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver, it won the Prix Méditerranée Étranger in 2002.
For readers of historical fiction and admirers of Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose.
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.
