num_pages: 522
description: FIRST U.S. EDITION. 2000 Harcourt trade paperback, Umberto Eco (Kant and the Essays on Language and Cognition). 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.- Amazon
language: English
title: Baudolino
titlecomplete: Baudolino
characters: Abdullah, Niketas Choniates, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, The Poet, Baudolino Aulario
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, Historical, Fantasy, Italy, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Medieval
ratings_count: 22947
places: Constantinople
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Prix Méditerranée Étranger
publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company