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Eco, Umberto.
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Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204 -- Fiction.
Animals, Mythical -- Fiction.
Middle Ages -- Fiction.
Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius III Angelus, 1195-1203 -- Fiction.
Constantinople -- Fiction.
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Eco, Umberto.
Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204 -- Fiction.
Animals, Mythical -- Fiction.
Middle Ages -- Fiction.
Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius III Angelus, 1195-1203 -- Fiction.
Constantinople -- Fiction.
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Baudolino / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
by
Eco, Umberto.
Harcourt, c2002.
Call #:
FICTION
ECO
Subjects
Crusades
--
Fourth, 1202-1204
--
Fiction
.
Animals, Mythical
--
Fiction
.
Middle Ages
--
Fiction
.
Byzantine
Empire
--
History
--
Alexius
III
Angelus
,
1195-1203
--
Fiction
.
Constantinople
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
0151006903
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
522 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the
Byzantine
Empire
, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts--a talent for learning languages and a skill in telling lies. When still a boy he meets a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively mind. The commander--who proves to be Emperor Frederick Barbarossa--adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends. Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, this merry band sets out in search of Prester John, a legendary priest-king said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East--a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and mouths on their stomachs, of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely maidens.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
Fantasy
fiction
.
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Adult Fantasy Fiction
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