 First edition (Italian) | |
| Author | Umberto Eco |
|---|---|
| Translator | William Weaver |
| Language | Italian |
| Genre | Historical novel, speculative fiction |
| Publisher | Bompiani (Italy) Secker & Warburg (UK) Harcourt (USA) |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 15 October 2002 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, paperback) |
| Pages | 528 pp (U.S. hardback edition) |
| ISBN | 0-15-100690-3 (U.S. hardback edition) |
| OCLC | 49002024 |
| 853/.914 21 | |
| LC Class | PQ4865.C6 B3813 2002 |
Baudolino is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century.
Baudolino was translated into English in 2001 by William Weaver. The novel presented a number of particular difficulties in translation, not the least of which is that there are ten or so pages written in a made-up language that is a mixture of Latin, medieval Italian and other languages (intended to reconstruct how a barely-literate Italian peasant boy of the 12th century would have tried to write in the vernacular).
Saint Baudolino, a historically-attested hermit of the eighth century, is the Patron Saint of Alessandria, and thus it would be natural for a boy born there to bear his name.