Books like Postille a Il nome della rosa by Umberto Eco

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

Interview With the Vampire: An Immortal Vampire Tells His Life Story

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.

Umberto Eco’s non‑fiction thriller unravels the tangled web of 19th‑century political conspiracies, examining secret societies, antisemitic myths and infamous historical events across Europe.

A 60‑year‑old Italian bookseller, Giambattista Bodoni, loses his memory in an attack. With his wife's help, he returns to their country house, where childhood objects and memories of 1930s Italy revive his lost past.

Interview with the Vampire; The Queen of the Damned; Vampire Lestat: A series of vampire tales featuring Anne Rice's iconic vampire protagonist Lestat, set in 19th-century Italy and America, with an interview with the vampire character.

"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.

A story about a man who meets another woman after losing his wife, only to find he was actually used by her, leading to a thrilling investigation of the truth.

A Nurse in Italy: Dark Secrets and Forbidden Love

A work in progress at the time of Pasolini's murder, Petrolio is made up of a series of notes - some extended and polished narrative passages, others cryptic messages from the author to himself that consist of no more than a few words. At the novel's center is Carlo, an oil executive who undergoes a profound personality split: Carlo 1 is a super-Machiavellian power monger; Carlo 2 lives only to satisfy his perverse and insatiable sexual desires. Carlo also experiences a sexual metamorphosis in which he becomes, at will, female. The story of Carlo is interspersed with re-visions of myth - Oedipus, Medea, the Argonauts - and of Dante's hell. The teller of this story is also dual in nature. There is the author - the external shaper of the novel - who interrupts the text to comment on its mechanics and its meaning. And there is the narrator, whose cynical and seductive perspective comes from within Petrolio's fictional world. Fragmentary, deliberately self-referential, meta-literary, schizoid, a devotional exploration of the male libido, an ode to the lust for power and the power of lust and, above all, a wrenching attempt to define the intellectual and his responsibilities, Petrolio is a postmodern masterpiece.

xiv, 295 p. ; 22 cm