Umberto Eco

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s....

The author of the international sensation The Name of the Rose returns to the Middle Ages in this beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention. It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade...

Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night...

Escucha ahora la novela más emblemática de Umberto Eco. Una apasionante trama y admirable reconstrucción de una época especialmente conflictiva, la del siglo XVI....

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to...

In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method....

Tre redattori editoriali, dopo aver frequentato a lungo autori che si dilettano di scienze occulte, società segrete e complotti cosmici, decidono di Inventare...

Listopad 1327 roku. Do znamienitego opactwa benedyktynów w pólnocnych Wloszech przybywa uczony franciszkanin....

Es gibt literarische Werke, die sind so präzise, klug und spannend geschrieben, da möchte man auf kein Wort verzichten. Umberto Ecos »Der Name der Rose« ist ein solches Werk Italien, 1327. In einem Benediktinerkloster kommt es zu unheimlichen Todesfällen. Ein Mönch ertrinkt im...

Un'abbazia medievale isolata. Una comunità di monaci sconvolta da una serie di delitti. Un frate francescano che indaga i misteri di una biblioteca inaccessibile. Il romanzo che ha rivelato al mondo il genio narrativo di Umberto Eco, un racconto tradotto in 60 paesi, un best seller da 7...

Lorenzo and Lucia, both from peasant families, are planning their wedding. However, after meeting the villainous Don Rodrigo, the couple are forced to flee their village. Their dangerous journey in exile takes them through one of the most dramatic eras in Italian history, filled with war, famine...

Umberto Ecos Meisterwerk endlich als ungekürzte Lesung Drei Mailänder Verlagslektoren geraten zufällig an eine Geheimbotschaft des legendenumwitterten Templerordens. Sie machen sich an die Entzifferung, bauen aus zahllosen Elementen ein gigantisches Puzzle, erfinden selbst einen Plan, der zu...

"Come viaggiare con un salmone" è un libro di istruzioni. Istruzioni sui generis, date da un maestro d'eccezione come Umberto Eco per...

"Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare l''Ur-Fascismo', o il 'fascismo eterno'...

In quella zona del basso Piemonte dove, anni dopo, sorgerà Alessandria, Baudolino, un piccolo contadino fantasioso e bugiardo, conquista Federico Barbarossa...

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His...

Der Weltbestseller als atmosphärisches und vielstimmiges Hörspiel Ein Mord erschüttert die Gemäuer des altehrwürdigen, weltberühmten Benediktinerklosters. Bruder William aus dem fernen Baskerville wird vom Abt mit der diskreten Klärung des Verbrechens beauftragt. Doch kaum beginnt William...

Von Gert Heidenreich und Jens Wawrczeck kongenial vorgetragen Paris, 1897. Der Italiener Simonini erwacht in einer Pariser Wohnung ohne Erinnerung an die vergangenen Tage. Er beginnt Tagebuch zu schreiben, um sich von seiner Kindheit über die Erlebnisse während des Risorgimento und der Pariser...

En una zona del bajo Piamonte, un pequeño campesino fantasioso y embustero llamado Baudolino conquista a Federico Barbarroja y se convierte en su hijo adoptivo....

Trent'anni dopo "Il nome della rosa" Umberto Eco torna a narrare un nuovo romanzo di ambientazione storica. Lungo il XIX secolo, tra Torino, Palermo e Parigi, troviamo una satanista isterica, un abate che muore due volte, alcuni cadaveri in una fogna parigina, un garibaldino che si...