Umberto Eco is Foucault's Pendulum. Gift book bound in leather

Editors, Templars, and voodoo priests play a dangerous game with history

After the release of the world bestseller "The Name of the Rose" (1980), made famous by the famous film, the Italian historian, aesthetician, structuralist Umberto Eco found himself in a difficult position. How to take a similar height for the second time? How to compose an equally successful book for different readers, both erudite and inexperienced? A book as lively as it is wise, as sardonic as it is tender? The author took a chance - and confirmed the previous record. Foucault's Pendulum (1988) became famous no less than The Name of the Rose, and the film was not made based on it only because the author himself did not allow the great Stanley Kubrick to do it. Editors of the Milan publishing house, Knights templar, voodoo priests and anti-fascist partisans interact on these pages. It is also told about the legendary Templars, about the secret masters of the world, but only to remind: history is reliable when its basis is an indisputable document. Everything else is a game. A game that can be dangerous.