{"product_id":"o-cemiterio-de-praga","title":"The Prague Cemetery","description":"A memorable work by Umberto Eco at his best.\n \nA treatise on the mechanics of hatred and a kind of synthesis of the history of prejudice, the book caused discomfort in more conservative sectors of Italian society, especially among religious people, for its blending of historical figures with a fictional, cynical, and Machiavellian anti-hero, capable of anything to exact revenge on priests, Jesuits, communists, but, above all, Jews. Filled with conspiracy theories, falsifications, Masonic themes, and details of Italian unification, the heart of the narrative lies in antisemitism. \nThe Prague cemetery also commemorates one of history's most striking episodes of forgery: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a text forged by Tsar Nicholas II's secret police to justify the persecution of the Jews. The writings, believed to have been based on a French text—Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu—described a supposed plan for world domination by the Israelites. They would later serve as Hitler's inspiration for the concentration camps.   \nThe odious Simonini, whom the author himself defines as one of the most repulsive literary characters ever created, is a master of disguise and conspiracy. A forger in the service of various governments. From northeastern Italy to Garibaldi's Sicily, from the slums of Paris to German taverns, passing through black masses, the bombing of Napoleon III, the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus affair, the Risorgimento, Simonini is all the revolutions, the bad choices, the mistakes of the 19th century, which Eco reconstructs with great historical rigor, between power grabs and revolutions.\n With the air of a new classic, The Prague Cemetery takes historical lies to new heights and also reveals tools used by forgers and propagandists.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159537697020,"sku":"9788501092847","price":89.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/d6ed90d0c9dbbaa5dbc512865bb24a62_12bd11a6-f832-4508-8994-faf6e893c6a8.jpg?v=1778641914","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/o-cemiterio-de-praga","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}