Books like Kant e l'ornitorinco by Umberto Eco

A medieval mystery set in 1327, where Brother William of Baskerville investigates heresy in an Italian abbey amid seven inexplicable deaths.

Umberto Eco's second novel, *Il pendolo di Foucault*, traces the author's young life and early 1980s, weaving ten sections that echo the ten Sephirot, while rich with esoteric allusions from Kabbalah, alchemy and conspiracy theory.

A peasant named Baudolino rises from humble beginnings to become a companion of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, learning in Paris and later witnessing the events of the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople.

"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."-- 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs, The evidence? He's working on it. It's all here: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, and murder. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II--from Mussolini to Berlusconi. --From book jacket.