A useful book for explicating the people, text, and places in Foucault's Pendulum . Precise, but sometime incomplete. Nuova Edizioni del Gallo, Roma 1990. Contains an introduction by the famous medievist Jacques Le Goff. Bompiani, Milano 1992.
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An essay on narrative structures in Eco's narrative, from one of his most faithful followers. It cites many articles on Eco published in a wide range of magazines and books. Back to the Criticism main page, where you can find the Porta Ludovica standard menu. That one is a heron, he said to himself, that a crane, a quail. Italian speakers may wish to order some of these works here.