The protagonist meets a skiapod named Gavagai and falls in love with a female satyr named Hypatia while in Pndapetzim ("pin-da-pet-zim"), long after his ability to learn languages enticed Frederick Barbarossa into adopting him.
At the conclusion of this book, Paphnutius suggests to a character to suppress the narrative, since a "greater liar" will eventually tell it. Another character in this book is mortally wounded in the land of Abcasia, after which he looks in the mirror of the gymnosophists and sees his true love just before dying. In this book, a castle outfitted with the mirrors of Archimedes that contains seven gilded heads of John the Baptist belongs to the scholar Ardzrouni. The protagonist meets a skiapod named Gavagai and falls in love with a female satyr named Hypatia while in Pndapetzim ("pin-da-pet-zim"), long after his ability to learn languages enticed Frederick Barbarossa into adopting him. In this novel's frame narrative, its title character meets Niketas Choniates ("cho-nye-ah-tees") during the Fourth-Crusade sack of Constantinople and relates his life story, including his search for Prester John. For 10 points, name this novel about a medieval traveller by Umberto Eco.
At the conclusion of this book, Paphnutius suggests to a character to suppress the narrative, since a "greater liar" will eventually tell it.
Baudolino