Baudolino is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a young man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century. Baudolino was translated into English in 2001 by William Weaver. The novel presented a number of particular difficulties in translation, not the least of which is that there are ten or so pages written in a made-up language that's a mixture of Latin, medieval Italian, and other languages. Plot summary In the year of 1204, Baudolino of Alessa… (More on Baudolino)