Review: ‘Perhaps there are those who will take delight in a lengthy, picaresque tale that combines historical verisimilitude with unicorns and satyrs and creatures called ponces who had “erect legs and no knee joints” and “phalluses, which hung from the chest.” More likely Baudolino will make you wonder how a storyteller as crafty as (Umberto) Eco ended up producing a novel so formulaic and cluttered as this one.’ NY Times