Umberto Eco's first novel, an international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Medicis Étranger awardsThe year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Basker...

After his heart attack, Milanese bookseller Yambo Battista's memory for the events of his life utterly deserts him: even his name is gone. All that's left is the culture, pop and otherwise, he has absorbed over his 60+ years--includin...

The author of The Name of the Rose presents a panoramic historical novel, set in the seventeenth century, about a young aristocrat who goes to sea to find love and an old Jesuit with a boundless scientific knowledge. 300,000 first pri...

The latest international bestseller from the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemaso...

The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In this series of provocative, passionate, and ...

Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up 'the Plan,' a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from whic...

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 t...

In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relations...

#1 Italian bestseller “Witty and wry . . . It’s hard not to be charmed.” — New York Times Book Review“One of the most influential thinkers of our time.” — Los Angeles Times 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress a...