by Umberto Eco · RL Libri · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788846203533
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«Baudolino» is a historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by RL Libri in paperback (540 pages, in Italian).
Baudolino, a fanciful and lying peasant from Lower Piedmont, becomes the adopted son of Frederick Barbarossa. Baudolino's inventions change the course of history, such as the letter of Prester John, which promises a Christian kingdom in the East. The work combines picaresque, history and fantasy, and reflects on truth, fiction and utopia.
Italian edition of 2004 within the Superpocket collection. Originally published in 2000, it won the Prix Méditerranée Étranger 2002.
For readers of historical and fantasy fiction, and for followers of Umberto Eco.
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.
