“Like the labyrinthine library at its heart, this brilliant novel has many cunning passages and secret chambers. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where “the most interesting things happen at night.” His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon - all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. Thomas Aquinasnamed Umberto Eco published his first (and at that time, only) novel Il Nomma della Rosa, that is, The Name of. An international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Médicis Etranger awards, this enthralling medieval murder mystery "explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, literally as well as figuratively" ( The New York Times) Adso tells the reader that he will write about a series of events that took place in 1327, when he was 18 years old and a fresh monk in the Benedictines order. In 1980, a pretty much unknown Italian authorhe’d only written a couple of children’s books and some graduate-level textbooks on semiotics (the study of signs), James Joyce and St.
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