As in "The Name of the Rose", the Middle Ages and the present are echoed and mutually reflected here. Like The Name of the Rose, Baudolino is a historical novel with detective elements. Here the plot goes back to Conan Doyle's The Six Napoleons, the mythical stories of the Magi, the Shroud of Turin, the search for the Grail are added, the heroes wander through fictional kingdoms and fight with armies of fantastic creatures, and everything ends with a thriller double denouement. Journalists immediately wrote: Baudolino is a self-portrait of Eco. A tireless storyteller, scribe, celebrity and citizen of the world and at the same time a connoisseur, and at times a participant in the common, carnivorous, semi-peasant life of the Italian province, Eco and his hero are the flesh of the flesh of the native town of Alexandria in Piedmont. It is this Alexandria, the city that is being born before the eyes of the reader, that in Eco's novel is depicted, with all its damp simplicity, as an almost sacred place, a vale of earthly paradise, a haven of the Grail.The publisher's layout has been saved in a4.pdf format.