Baudolino

The novel "Bavdolino" is an action-packed prose, the historical background of which is the Crusades, the legend of the Christian kingdom in the East, the legend of the search for the Grail. A teenager named Bavdolino accidentally meets the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and helps him get out of the forest in which he got lost. This meeting becomes the beginning of incredible adventures that "haunt" Bavdolino for almost 50 years. But adventures and action are not the main thing. "Bavdolino is the embodied joy of storytelling," Eco said about his hero. Because History is not what once was, History is what is told.