Umberto Eco writes on 29 pages, most of them discussions about religion and philosophy, the love story of Baudolino and Hypatia. She is the disciple of Hypatia of Alexandria, historically known as a “martyr for philosophy”. The fictional Hypatia believes that God needs a “redemption”. Actually, she says that it’s on us to accept that many gods exist, besides Him, in the animate, inanimate, spiritual and reasoning worlds; a world of One. (I am asking myself, is this a Universal Religion, or a Theory of Everything?) Baudolino is highly charmed by her beauty and energy, and at times mildly baffled by her eloquence. In the movie script, I have to be “eloquent”, with their nine-month love story, in a series of short sequences, altogether no longer than a few minutes. Thus, the discussions will have to touch just on the basic precepts of Religion, Neoplatonism and Gnosticism. Good luck, I say to myself, go study!