Umberto Eco
1) Numero zero
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder. A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double. The murder of Pope John Paul I, the CIA, red...
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English
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"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false...
Author
Series
Contemporanea / Debolsillo. Biblioteca Umberto Eco volume 238/3
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Español
8) Baudolino
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino narrates the story of his life, from his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his education in Paris to his arrival in Constantinople during the turmoil of the Fourth Crusade.
9) Baudolino
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino narrates the story of his life, from his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his education in Paris to his arrival in Constantinople during the turmoil of the Fourth Crusade.
11) Número cero
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Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1986
Language
English
Description
One monk has fallen from a tower, another is found head-first in a vat of pigs' blood. Visiting Brother Sean Connery, investigating the deaths, discovers a secret library containing rare books considered lost to the world and dangerous to the Catholic faith. He must find the connection between the hidden literature and the killings before innocent people are burned at the stake.