Nineteenth-centúry Európy - od Turínu do Prahy do Paríža - s ghastly a mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot proti Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plán bombings by deň a oslava Black Masses at night. Every nation má svoje vlastné secret service, perpetrating forgeries, ploty, a massacres. Od unifikovania Talianska do Paríža Commune do Dreyfus Affair do Protokolov z Elders Zion, európa je v tumulte a viac needs a scapegoat. Alebo ak, za všetky tieto conspiracies ako real a imagined, môže jeden človek? What if that evil genius created its most infamous document? Eco taky jeho readers on unforgettable journey prostredníctvom underbelly of world-shattering events. Eco at his most exciting, a kniha immediately hailed as a masterpiece.