The highly anticipated, controversial novel, sold in more than forty countries"" Nineteenth-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created its most infamous document? Eco takes his readers on an unforgettable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. Eco at his most exciting, a book immediately hailed as a masterpiece.
Umberto Eco翁贝托•埃科（1932-2016）
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》《布拉格公墓》《试刊号》和《密涅瓦火柴盒》等。