Baudolino is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century. Baudolino...
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Saint Baudolino (c. 700 – c. 740) was a hermit who lived at the time of the Lombard king Liutprand in Forum Fulvii (now Villa del Foro), a locality on...
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Monopod (creature) (section Baudolino)
appearance on drawings from the Hereford Mappa Mundi. Umberto Eco in his novel Baudolino describes a sciapod named Gavagai. The name of the creature "Gavagai"...
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Imperial siege and stood fast. A legend (related in Umberto Eco's book Baudolino, and which recalls one concerning Bishop Herculanus’ successful defence...
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century. Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino is set partly at Constantinople during the Crusader conquest. The imaginary hero, Baudolino, saves Niketas during the...
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interest in the international auxiliary language Esperanto. Baudolino was published in 2000. Baudolino is a much-travelled polyglot Piedmontese scholar who saves...
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colorful characters along the way. Later examples include Umberto Eco's Baudolino (2000), and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (Booker Prize 2008). William...
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detest and persecute your brother". Umberto Eco, in his book Baudolino, has the young Baudolino invent a story about seeing the holy foreskin and navel in...
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preferred to be known as agonistici ("fighters" for Christ). In Umberto Eco's Baudolino (2000), the law of the Deacon of Pndapetzim is enforced by Circumcellion...
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(1983) Foucault's Pendulum (1989) The Island of the Day Before (1995) Baudolino (2001) The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2005) The Prague Cemetery...
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