Various strange characters figuring in the novel Baudolino as rendered in the Nuremberg Chronicle
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Various strange characters figuring in the novel Baudolino as rendered in the Nuremberg Chronicles. These creatures and many others were all described and named by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historiæ from 77 AD: A monopod[1] and a satyr[2]; a blemmyae and a panotti[3].
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![[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Strange_People_-_Umbrella_Foot_(XIIr).jpg){kind=link}
![[2]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Image-Schedel%27sche_Weltchronik-Devil_man.jpg){kind=link}
![[3]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schedel%27sche_Weltchronik-Large_ears.jpg){kind=link}