Book summary

Baudolino is an 11th-century adventurer who is relating his story to a historian. The events of his extravagant life include his early precocity, his adoption by the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, his studies in Paris, his search for the Holy Grail, and his love for a woman who is half human and half unicorn. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Media reviews

"[E]rudite and intermittently sluggish....[A]ction is kept to a minimum while Eco permits his characters to engage in lengthy philosophical conversations...."