La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana

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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (original title: La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana) is a 2004 novel by Italian author and semiotician Umberto Eco. It focuses on a man who wakes up in hospital after an unspecified accident, only to find that he has retained his general knowledge but lost all his personal memories. In trying to find out about his past, he looks through his childhood belongings and thus gives account of a childhood spend in fascist Italy.