As in "The Name of the Rose", the Middle Ages and modernity are echoed and reflected here. Like "The Name of the Rose", "Baudolino" is a historical novel with elements of a detective. Here the plot goes back to Conan Doyle’s “Six Napoleons”, the mythical stories of the Magi, the Shroud of Turin, the search for the Grail are added, the heroes wander through fictional kingdoms and fight armies of fantastic creatures, and all ends with a thriller double denouement. Journalists wrote immediately: Baudolino is a self-portrait of Eco . A tireless storyteller, scribe, celebrity and citizen of the world, and at the same time an expert, and at times a participant in the popular, carnivorous, semi-peasant life of the Italian province, Eco and his hero are flesh from the flesh of his native town of Alexandria in Piedmont .. It is this Alexandria, a city born before the eyes of the reader, in the novel Eco is depicted, for all its raw simplicity, as an almost sacred place, the Judo of the earthly paradise, the refuge of the Grail.