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Eco, Umberto Baudolino
Random House November 7, 200 0-436-27603-8 / 9780436276033 1st Edition Hardback Near Fine/Near Fine
A crisp clean first edition, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib: The most playful of historical novelists, Umberto Eco has absorbed the real lesson of history: that there is no such thing as the absolute truth. In Baudolino, he hands his narrative to an Italian peasant who has managed, through good luck and a clever tongue, to become the adopted son of the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and a minister of his court in the closing years of the 12th century. Baudolino's other gift is for spontaneous but convincing lies, and so his unfolding tale--as recounted in 1204 to a nobleman of Constantinople, while the fires of the Fourth Crusade rage around them--exemplifies the Cretan Liar's Paradox: He can't be believed. Why not, then, make his story as outrageous as possible? In the course of his picaresque tale, Baudolino manages to touch on nearly every major theme, conflict, and boondoggle of the Middle Ages: the Crusades; the troubadours; the legend of the Holy Grail; the rise of the cathedral cities; the position of Jews; the market in relics; the local rivalries that made Italy so vulnerable to outside attack; and the perennial power struggles between the pope and the emperor. With the help of alcohol and a mysterious Moorish concoction called "green honey," Baudolino and his ragtag friends engage in typical scholastic debates of the period, trying to determine the dimensions of Solomon's Temple and the location of the Earthly Paradise. And when the Emperor needs support in his claims for saintly lineage, who but Baudolino can craft the perfect letter of homage from the legendary Prester John, Holy (and wholly fictitious)
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Eco, Umberto Baudolino
Harcourt October 15, 200 0-15-100690-3 / 9780151006908 1st Edition Hardcover NF/F
A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. In another grand mythical epic, Eco transports readers to the medieval Italy of The Name of the Rose (though almost two centuries earlier), where Frederick Barbarossa seeks to establish himself as the Holy Roman emperor. The story begins in 1204, as the Byzantium capital of Constantinople is sacked and Baudolino, the adoptive son of Frederick, recounts his life to Byzantine historian Niketas, whom he has just saved from the barbaric Latins.
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Eco, Umberto Foucault's Pendulum
Vintage August 3, 2001 0-09-928715-3 / 9780099287155 Paperback Very Good
Student of philology in 1970s Milan, Casaubon is completing a thesis on the Templars, a monastic knighthood disbanded in the 1300s for questionable pr actices. At Pilades Bar, he meets up with Jacopo Belbo, an editor of obscur e texts at Garamond Press. Together with Belbo's colleague Diotallevi, they scrutinize the fantastic theories of a prospective author, Colonel Ardenti , who claims that for seven centuries the Templars have been carrying out a complex scheme of revenge. When Ardenti disappears mysteriously, the three begin using their detailed knowledge of the occult sciences to construct a Plan for the Templars[...] In his compulsively readable new novel, Eco pla ys with "the notion that everything might be mysteriously related to everyt hing else," suggesting that we ourselves create the connections that make u p reality. As in his best-selling The Name of the Rose, he relies on abstru se reasoning without losing the reader, for he knows how to use "the polyph ony of ideas" as much for effect as for content. Indeed, with its investiga tion of the ever-popular occult, this highly entertaining novel should be e very bit as successful as its predecessor.
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Eco, Umberto The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Harvest Books 2006 0-15-603043-8 / 9780156030434 Paperback Very Good+
The premise of Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, may strik e some readers as laughably unpromising, and others as breathtakingly rich. A sixty-ish Milanese antiquarian bookseller nicknamed Yambo suffers a stro ke and loses his memory of everything but the words he has read: poems, sce nes from novels, miscellaneous quotations. His wife Paola fills in the bare essentials of his family history, but in order to trigger original memorie s, Yambo retreats alone to his ancestral home at Solara, a large country ho use with an improbably intact collection of family papers, books, gramophon e records, and photographs. The house is a museum of Yambo's childhood, con ventiently empty of people, except of course for one old family servant wit h a long memory--an apt metaphor for the mind. Yambo submerges himself in t hese artifacts, rereading almost everything he read as a school boy, blazin g a meandering, sometimes misguided, often enchanting trail of words.
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