by Umberto Eco · Lumen Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426413093
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«Baudolino» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published in 2001 by Lumen Editorial in hardcover (541 pages, in Spanish).
In twelfth-century Piedmont, Baudolino, a fanciful and deceitful peasant, becomes the adopted son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. His inventions generate history: the letter of Prester John and the crusade in search of the Holy Grail. The narrative unfolds during the sack of Constantinople and combines historical novel, adventure and intrigue.
Translation by Helena Lozano Miralles, within the Palabra en el Tiempo collection. Novel originally published in 2000; winner of the Prix Méditerranée Étranger 2002.
A read for fans of medieval fantasy and Umberto Eco's narrative.
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.
