Chronicles of a Liquid Society (2017) Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. This posthumous collection of 115 short essays and opinion pieces, includes a number of passing references to Freemasonry, demonstrating the continuing influence and relevence of Freeemasonry in contemporary society. Where's the deep throat? "Only naïve Freemasons and followers of bogus Templar rituals believe in a secret that remains unbroken." (2007) [p. 93.] Fine company "Nineteenth-century Jesuits were among the main instigators of the Jewish-Masonic conspiracy, from Abbé Augustin Barruel to the creation of the Jesuit magazine La Civiltà Cattolica and the novels of Father Antonio Bresciani, and it was fitting that they should be repaid in the same way by Italian liberals, Mazzinians, Freemasons, and anticlerical movements...." (2008) [p. 97.] Those strangers, the Three Kings "...Leo XIII, a pope obsessed with the new paganism of Freemasonry and the anticlerical liberals who held power in Rome at that time." (2010) [p. 202.] Who gets cited most? In this essay, Eco criticizes the reliance on quantity of citations for academic promotion. "For example: I publish a book in which I show that Jesus was the true founder of Freemasonry...." He also refers to Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Harry Lincoln: "They have written a pile of rubbish, but they have been, and will be, frequently cited." (2003) [p. 218.] How to protect yourself from the Templars "Those who wish to follow the development of the [Knights Templar] myth in the tangled forest of contemporary occultism, among gnostic sects, satanic fraternities, spiritualists, Pythagorean and Rosicrucian orders, Illuminati, Freemasons, and UFO hunters, can read Massimo Introvigne's Il cappello del mago (The Magician's Hat). (2001) [p. 234.] Umberto Eco, Chronicles of a Liquid Society Translated by Richard Dixon. Boston, New York : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. November 14, 2017. pb, 304pp. PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS | HISTORY| NONFICTION

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