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	Eco - Review of "Baudolino"
		While the conversations between Baudolino and Master Niketas form the main text of the book, this very dialogue is itself narrated by an omniscient author unafraid to comment on the characters and their actions.
		Having said that, Baudolino is still filled with enough invention, wonder, and erudition to fill a dozen lesser novels, and it’s pointless to criticize it for not having the same goal as his earlier works.
		As Baudolino cagily confirms these exaggerations, his companion mutters, “Who’s been telling these people such whoppers?” The fact that this companion – who has been posing as a Biblical magus and is carrying one of six heads of John the Baptist – has been strategically spreading exactly such whoppers himself is not worthy of comment.
	www.themodernword.com /eco/review_baudolino.html (2132 words)

	Amazon.com: Baudolino: Books: Umberto Eco,William Weaver
		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.
		Rattisbon Anno Domini mense decembri mclv Cronicle of Baudolino of the fammily of Aulario.
	www.amazon.com /Baudolino-Umberto-Eco/dp/0151006903 (736 words)

	Mundus Senescit: Umberto Eco's Middle Ages - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Baudolino becomes a symbol of the new social mobility of the late Middle Ages, when urban centers and burgeoning nations created footholds for merchants and even peasants in the upper classes.
		Baudolino uses his fabulous stories to deceive, to seduce, to entertain, and to encourage-and the listener has an eager ear, because he is waiting to be lied to.
		Often, Baudolino lies out of a sense of duty; of three phony relics, the supposed bodies of the Magi, he says it was "up to me to give those three bodies a new Bethlehem." And you believe him, because you can hear in his voice how much he wants to believe himself.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2002winter/eco.shtml (2191 words)

	Baudolino Umberto Eco
		Baudolino, un jeune paysan fantasque et menteur, fait la conquête de Frédéric Barberousse et devient son fils adoptif.
		Baudolino fabule, invente, et, comme par miracle, tout ce qu'il imagine devient histoire.
		Baudolino, vingt ans après, est un Nom de la rose laïc où l'on revient délicieusement aux sources pour parcourir à nouveau les fondements du savoir de l'humanité en une joyeuse et paillarde sarabande des corps et des esprits.
	www.alalettre.com /international/eco-baudolino.htm (675 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Baudolino
		During the sacking of Constantinople by Crusaders in 1204, Baudolino saves the life of a high court official named Niketas and, while the city is being burned and looted, he proceeds to tell the appreciative and increasingly intrigued gentleman his life story—and quite a story it is.
		There, Baudolino made a number of equally adventurous, imaginative and intellectually curious friends, and together they laid the foundation for an epic quest that is part myth, part hallucination, part reverie and a small dose of fact.
		Baudolino's journey of the spirit takes him through his own middle age and beyond, and in the process we are treated to an insider's view of the historical era of the Middle Ages, with all its inventions, brutality, hope, failure and promise.
	www.bookpage.com /0210bp/fiction/baudolino.html (494 words)

	Baudolino / Umberto Eco
		Baudolino's life story is interwoven with the real history of the world in a way that sometimes makes it difficult to tell truth from fiction.
		Baudolino had supposedly caused Bishop Otto to rewrite his historic works (Chronica sive Historia de duabus civitatibus); he is the mastermind behind the Diet of Roncaglia; the anointing of the Antipope; the canonization of Charlemagne; the forged letters of Prester John; and most of all, Frederick's decision to embark on a third crusade.
		Baudolino's own life is spent mostly in a quest to find the Kingdom of Prester John, a legendary Christian kingdom in the orient, and to find the Grasal, better known as the Holy Grail.
	tal.forum2.org /baudolino (671 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Baudolino by Umberto Eco
		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.
		The commander-who proves to be Emperor Frederick Barbarossa-adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends.
		Explore the question of whether Baudolino is ultimately a tragic or comic tale.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/baudolino1.asp (795 words)

	In the middle of 12th century \| csmonitor.com
		Charmed as we may be by this specimen of the young Baudolino's macaronic writing style, it's a relief to discover that the rest of his story is told in standard modern English (or standard modern Italian deftly rendered into English by William Weaver).
		Baudolino's gift for languages and his engaging personality bring him to the attention of the German-born Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who is trying to subdue the unruly cities of northern Italy.
		One of Baudolino's most far-fetched inventions was a letter purportedly written by the legendary Christian priest-king of the Indias, Prester John.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1114/p19s02-bogn.html (816 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Of Unicorns and Satyrs and Things With No Knees - New York Times
		Against the background of the burning city Baudolino recounts his eventful life, whose turning point came when, still a boy ''living with my father and mother, a few cows and a vegetable patch,'' he was adopted by Frederick during one of his campaigns in Italy.
		Baudolino is a sort of court jester, the only person who can speak unwelcome truths to the emperor.
		When Baudolino returns to Frederick's court and the Holy Roman Empire, he is persuaded to put his new learning to use and achieve glory for himself by luring Frederick into a different kind of ambition than the one he has pursued until then.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E0DA1F3AF935A25753C1A9649C8B63 (703 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Byzantine Tale
		In a virtuoso first chapter, Baudolino, a young Italian peasant, has stolen a clerical manuscript, scraped away most of its contents, and is using the parchment to write down his own story.
		Instead of allowing Baudolino to continue his tale in his own vigorous, fractured syntax, the narrative jumps forward in time to the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople, and an omniscient narrator takes over.
		Baudolino, for all his self-invention, tall-tale-telling and downright lying, is the book's only real character.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A11943-2002Oct11?language=printer (643 words)

	Print Article: Baudolino
		Baudolino tells stories of love and war, of a quest that is more important than achieving the object of that quest.
		The story of the quest, and of Baudolino as faithful servant of the holy and Roman emperor Frederick, aka Barbarossa, provide some narrative coherence to this book's sprawl.
		Along the way Baudolino and the reader encounter the usual trappings of medieval reconstruction: skiapods, blemmyes, camelopards, chimera, manticores, the magi, gymnosophists, the Lady and the Unicorn.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/11/08/1036308431149.html (442 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Baudolino by Umberto Eco, reviewed by Christian Science Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Charmed as we may be by this specimen of the young Baudolino's macaronic writing style, it's a relief to discover that the rest of his story is told in standard modern English (or standard modern Italian deftly rendered into English by William Weaver).
		Baudolino's gift for languages and his engaging personality bring him to the attention of the German-born Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who is trying to subdue the unruly cities of northern Italy.
		One of Baudolino's most far-fetched inventions was a letter purportedly written by the legendary Christian priest-king of the Indias, Prester John.
	www.powells.com /review/2002_12_23.html (728 words)

	Observer review: Baudolino by Umberto Eco \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Baudolino is a twelfth-century Italian peasant boy with a gift for picking up languages, who runs into a Frankish knight lost in the fog.
		When Frederick Barbarossa besieges Baudolino's home town, it seems that he must choose between his carnal father and his spiritual one, but the brainwave about forcefeeding the cow means he doesn't need to after all.
		Baudolino falls in love, marries, then loses his wife and their unborn baby, but all this is recounted in three pages.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,819886,00.html (851 words)

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