📖 Baudolino

Charmer, rogue, rogue and liar, Baudolino after a meeting whose story will remain a fantasy gem Umberto Eco, becomes the confidant and adviser to the late Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. He always dream affabule and imagine everything eventually produce history. Driven by Baudolino, the emperor takes part in the Third Crusade excuse to go back to Prester John, who was said to prevail in a remote and inaccessible East amidst spells and monsters, the most precious relics of the Christianity. Therefore, the history of Baudolino takes place in a series of stories the most ardent than others. Looting of Constantinople mysterious death of Frederick, parade terrifying episodes or bouncing fun, illuminations love or bloody settling of accounts: it's a quest where total laugh constantly vies emotion, wink eye philosophical or historical imagination and humor. Romance, adventure novel picaresque, historical epic, a crime thriller may be perfect novel of revenge and theater linguistic inventions hilarious Baudolino, twenty years later, is a secular Name of the Rose where it plays again the foundations of human knowledge in a joyful and bawdy sarabande bodies and minds.