It breaks through his reluctance enough to get him talking.

And Another Thing.: Realising the Abbot has something on his mind, William waits till the Abbot is leaving before asking him about the freshly dug grave outside.

It starred John Turturro, Rupert Everett, Michael Emerson, James Cosmo, Sebastian Koch and Tchéky Karyo. In 2019 it was adapted by Italian State Broadcaster Rai 1 into a TV miniseries, and broadcast on Sundance TV in the United States. It was also adapted a year later into an unlicensed video game. Murray Abraham, Ron Perlman, Michael Lonsdale, and Sean Connery. It received a movie adaptation in 1986, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, and starring Christian Slater, F. The story, described by some as Sherlock Holmes IN THE 14th CENTURY, follows Brother William of Baskerville and his young apprentice, novice Adso of Melk, who go to an abbey where a murder was committed and end up investigating it. Set in what has been called the disastrous fourteenth century, during the period of the Medieval Inquisition. The Name of the Rose ( Il nome della rosa) is a novel written by Umberto Eco in 1980. 'Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names'.

I found reading Eco's Postscript very worthwhile.Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. This was also translated into English by William Weaver as Postscript to the Name of the Rose, and published in 1984. In 1983 Eco published an informative small illustrated book explaining aspects of the novel entitled Positille a Il nome della rosa. Instead I recommend that you follow the links for further information, and read the book if it suits your taste. This novel clearly attracted numerous contributors to the Wikipedia, and their articles both on Eco and The Name of the Rose provide such detailed and insightful analysis that it would be pointless to summarize. The title of the novel alludes to the literary tradition of Le Roman de la Rose.

Watson, and many other features of interest to readers of this database. Just a few of the appealing aspects of the plot, without a 'spoiler,' include an unknown treatise by Aristotle, On Laughter, a mysterious labyrinthine library, a medieval monk detective patterned after Sherlock Holmes, narration by a 'sidekick' patterned after Dr. It is an intellectual murder mystery, combining semiotics, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, set in an Italian monastery patterned after the abbey and library at Bobbio, Italy, in 1327. The English translation by William Weaver appeared in 1983 under the tile of The Name of the Rose. In 1980 Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist Umberto Eco published Il nome della rosa.

Il nome della rosa by Umberto Eco