An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of history, myth and invention. It is 1204, and Constantinople is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. (20021018)
翁贝托·埃科(Umberto Eco, 1932- ),欧洲重要的公共知识分子,小说家、符号学家、美学家、史学家、哲学家。出生于意大利亚历山德里亚,博洛尼亚大学教授。
著有大量小说和随笔作品,如《玫瑰的名字》、《傅科摆》、《昨日之岛》、《波多里诺》、《洛阿娜女王的神秘火焰》和《密涅瓦火柴盒》等。