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conversations.value: Novel by the author, published in Italian as Il nome della rosa in 1980. Although the work stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of "truth" from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives. The story centers on William of Baskerville, a 50-year-old monk who is sent to investigate a death at a Benedictine monastery. During his search, several other monks are killed in a bizarre pattern that reflects the Book of Revelation. Highly rational, Baskerville meets his nemesis in Jorge of Burgos, a doctrinaire blind monk determined to destroy heresy at any cost. -- <a href="/exec/obidos/isbn=0877790426/${0}">The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature</a>
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conversations.value: The Name of the Rose: Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk, a Benedictine novice travelling under his protection, arrive at a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation.\nUpon their coming, the monastery is disturbed by a suicide.\nAs the story unfolds, several other monks die under mysterious circumstances.\nWilliam is tasked by the monastery's abbot to investigate the deaths, and fresh clues with each murder victim lead William to dead ends and new clues.\nThe protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, discuss the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the Inquisition, a reaction to the Waldensians, a heresy which started in the 12th century and claimed to advocate an adherence to the Gospel as taught by Jesus and his disciples.\nWilliam's innate curiosity and highly developed powers of logic and deduction provide the keys to unraveling the abbey's mysteries.
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conversations.value: \nUpon their coming, the monastery is disturbed by a suicide.\nAs the story unfolds, several other monks die under mysterious circumstances.\nWilliam is tasked by the monastery's abbot to investigate the deaths, and fresh clues with each murder victim lead William to dead ends and new clues.\nThe protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, discuss the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the Inquisition, a reaction to the Waldensians, a heresy which started in the 12th century and claimed to advocate an adherence to the Gospel as taught by Jesus and his disciples.\nWilliam's innate curiosity and highly developed powers of logic and deduction provide the keys to unraveling the abbey's mysteries.
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conversations.value: a plot for a book titled The Name of the Rose. Start with the sentence 'The Name of the Rose (film): As an old man, Adso recounts how, as a young novice in 1327, he and his mentor, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, traveled to a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy where the Franciscans were to debate with Papal emissaries the poverty of Christ'.
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conversations.value: The Name of the Rose (film): As an old man, Adso recounts how, as a young novice in 1327, he and his mentor, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, traveled to a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy where the Franciscans were to debate with Papal emissaries the poverty of Christ.\nThe abbey boasts a famed scriptorium where scribes copy, translate or illuminate books.\nThe monk Adelmo of Otranto —a young but famous manuscript illuminator— has suspiciously died.\nThe abbot seeks help from William, renowned for his deductive powers.\nIt cannot be a suicide because the body was found below a tower with only a window which cannot be opened.\nWilliam is reluctantly drawn in by the intellectual challenge and his desire to disprove fears of a demonic culprit.\nWilliam also worries the abbot will summon officials of the Inquisition if the mystery remains unsolved.\nWilliam soon concludes that Adelmo\'s death was indeed suicide; he fell from a different tower.\nNevertheless, Venantius, a Greek translator and the last to speak with Adelmo, is found dead in a vat of pig blood.\nThe corpse bears a black stain on a finger and the tongue.\nThe monks suspect a supernatural cause, fears reinforced when the saintly Fransciscan monk Ubertino of Casale warns that the deaths resemble signs mentioned in the Book of Revelation.\nIn the scriptorium, William inspects Adelmo\'s desk, but is blocked by Brother Berengar, the assistant librarian.\nBrother Malachia, the head librarian, denies William access to the rest of the building.\nWilliam encounters Salvatore, a demented hunchback, and his protector, Remigio da Varagine, the cellarer.\nWilliam deduces that both were Dulcinites, members of a heretical sect that believes that clergy should be impoverished.\nWilliam does not suspect them of murder though, since Dulcinites target wealthy bishops, not poor monks.\nNevertheless, Remigio\'s past gives William leverage in learning the abbey\'s secrets.\nSalvatore tells William that Adelmo had crossed paths with Venantius on the night that Adelmo died.\nMeanwhile, Adso encounters a beautiful semi-feral peasant girl who has apparently sneaked into the abbey to trade sexual favours for food; she seduces him.\nReturning that night to Venantius\'s desk, William finds a book in Greek, and also a parchment with Greek writing, smudges of a color blended by Adelmo for illuminating books and also cryptic symbols written by a left-handed man using invisible ink.\nBrother Berengar sneaks into the darkened library, distracts William and steals the book and a pair of magnifying glasses that William had been using to read it.\nBerengar is later found drowned in a bath and bearing stains similar to those on Venantius.\nWilliam confronts the abbot with the parchment, proving its links to Venantius and Adelmo and Berengar, the only left-handed man in the abbey.\nWilliam theorizes that the translator transcribed the Greek notes on the parchment from a book, and that the book is somehow responsible for the deaths.\nThe abbot is unconvinced and insists that William end his investigations.\nBurning the parchment, he informs William that the Inquisition —in the person of Bernardo Gui— has already been summoned.\nDetermined to solve the mystery before Gui arrives, William and Adso discover a vast, hidden library above the scriptorium.\nWilliam suspects the abbey hid the books because much of their contents comes from pagan philosophers.\nWilliam tells Adso that he and Gui have clashed years before.\nLike the abbot, the monks and even William\'s fellow Franciscans, Gui concludes the devil as the culprit.\nGui finds Salvatore and the peasant girl fighting over a black cockerel while in the presence of a black cat.\nFor Gui, this is irrefutable proof of witchcraft, and he tortures Salvatore into a false confession.\nAs the theological debate begins, the abbey\'s herbalist finds a book written in Greek in his dispensary, and is overheard telling this to William.\nSoon, the herbalist is found murdered in the now ransacked dispensary.\nLearning Remigio\'s Dulcanite past, Gui arrests him for the murders.\nAlong with Salvatore and the girl, Remigio is brought before a tribunal, with Gui, the abbot and William as judges.\nRemigio proudly admits his past—which included killing bishops and priests—but denies having killed anyone in the abbey.\nWhile the abbot quickly condemns Remigio for murder, William points out that the murders are tied to the book written in Greek, which Remigio could not read.\nWilliam warns that Remigio\'s execution will not end the murders.\nUnder Gui\'s threats of torture, however, Remigio "confesses".\nGui arranges for the prisoners to be burned at the stake, while William, having "relapsed", will be taken to Avignon.\nSoon Malachia is dying, with black stains on his tongue and finger.\nAs the monks prepare Gui\'s prisoners for execution, William and Adso re-enter the secret library and come face to face with the Venerable Jorge, the oldest denizen of the abbey.\nHaving recognized the lines on the translator\'s parchment, William demands that Jorge turn over the book that the dead men had been reading: Aristotle\'s Second Book of Poetics on Comedy.\nJorge reveals that William\'s theories were correct and "rewards" him with the book, likely the only copy in existence.\nWilliam realizes that the corners of each page are coated with poison, and the dead monks had wet their fingers on their tongues to turn its pages.\nBelieving laughter to be sinful, Jorge thus killed those who had read the book.\nConfronted, Jorge starts a blaze that quickly engulfs the library.\nWilliam vainly tries to save some of the books.\nJorge kills himself by consuming the poison-coated pages.\nSeeing the fire, the monks abandon the prisoners, allowing the local peasants to save the girl and kill Gui by pushing his wagon off a cliff.\nAs William and Adso depart, Adso encounters the girl, but chooses to go with William.\nThe much older Adso states that he never regretted his decision, and that the girl was the only earthly love of his life, yet he never learned her name.
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conversations.value: The Name of the Rose (film): As an old man, Adso recounts how, as a young novice in 1327, he and his mentor, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, traveled to a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy where the Franciscans were to debate with Papal emissaries the poverty of Christ.\nThe abbey boasts a famed scriptorium where scribes copy, translate or illuminate books.\nThe monk Adelmo of Otranto —a young but famous manuscript illuminator— has suspiciously died.\nThe abbot seeks help from William, renowned for his deductive powers.\nIt cannot be a suicide because the body was found below a tower with only a window which cannot be opened.\nWilliam is reluctantly drawn in by the intellectual challenge and his desire to disprove fears of a demonic culprit.\nWilliam also worries the abbot will summon officials of the Inquisition if the mystery remains unsolved.\nWilliam soon concludes that Adelmo\'s death was indeed suicide; he fell from a different tower.\nNevertheless, Venantius, a Greek translator and the last to speak with Adelmo, is found dead in a vat of pig blood.\nThe corpse bears a black stain on a finger and the tongue.\nThe monks suspect a supernatural cause, fears reinforced when the saintly Fransciscan monk Ubertino of Casale warns that the deaths resemble signs mentioned in the Book of Revelation.\nIn the scriptorium, William inspects Adelmo\'s desk, but is blocked by Brother Berengar, the assistant librarian.\nBrother Malachia, the head librarian, denies William access to the rest of the building.\nWilliam encounters Salvatore, a demented hunchback, and his protector, Remigio da Varagine, the cellarer.\nWilliam deduces that both were Dulcinites, members of a heretical sect that believes that clergy should be impoverished.\nWilliam does not suspect them of murder though, since Dulcinites target wealthy bishops, not poor monks.\nNevertheless, Remigio\'s past gives William leverage in learning the abbey\'s secrets.\nSalvatore tells William that Adelmo had crossed paths with Venantius on the night that Adelmo died.\nMeanwhile, Adso encounters a beautiful semi-feral peasant girl who has apparently sneaked into the abbey to trade sexual favours for food; she seduces him.\nReturning that night to Venantius\'s desk, William finds a book in Greek, and also a parchment with Greek writing, smudges of a color blended by Adelmo for illuminating books and also cryptic symbols written by a left-handed man using invisible ink.\nBrother Berengar sneaks into the darkened library, distracts William and steals the book and a pair of magnifying glasses that William had been using to read it.\nBerengar is later found drowned in a bath and bearing stains similar to those on Venantius.\nWilliam confronts the abbot with the parchment, proving its links to Venantius and Adelmo and Berengar, the only left-handed man in the abbey.\nWilliam theorizes that the translator transcribed the Greek notes on the parchment from a book, and that the book is somehow responsible for the deaths.\nThe abbot is unconvinced and insists that William end his investigations.\nBurning the parchment, he informs William that the Inquisition —in the person of Bernardo Gui— has already been summoned.\nDetermined to solve the mystery before Gui arrives, William and Adso discover a vast, hidden library above the scriptorium.\nWilliam suspects the abbey hid the books because much of their contents comes from pagan philosophers.\nWilliam tells Adso that he and Gui have clashed years before.\nLike the abbot, the monks and even William\'s fellow Franciscans, Gui concludes the devil as the culprit.\nGui finds Salvatore and the peasant girl fighting over a black cockerel while in the presence of a black cat.\nFor Gui, this is irrefutable proof of witchcraft, and he tortures Salvatore into a false confession.\nAs the theological debate begins, the abbey\'s herbalist finds a book written in Greek in his dispensary, and is overheard telling this to William.\nSoon, the herbalist is found murdered in the now ransacked dispensary.\nLearning Remigio\'s Dulcanite past, Gui arrests him for the murders.\nAlong with Salvatore and the girl, Remigio is brought before a tribunal, with Gui, the abbot and William as judges.\nRemigio proudly admits his past—which included killing bishops and priests—but denies having killed anyone in the abbey.\nWhile the abbot quickly condemns Remigio for murder, William points out that the murders are tied to the book written in Greek, which Remigio could not read.\nWilliam warns that Remigio\'s execution will not end the murders.\nUnder Gui\'s threats of torture, however, Remigio "confesses".\nGui arranges for the prisoners to be burned at the stake, while William, having "relapsed", will be taken to Avignon.\nSoon Malachia is dying, with black stains on his tongue and finger.\nAs the monks prepare Gui\'s prisoners for execution, William and Adso re-enter the secret library and come face to face with the Venerable Jorge, the oldest denizen of the abbey.\nHaving recognized the lines on the translator\'s parchment, William demands that Jorge turn over the book that the dead men had been reading: Aristotle\'s Second Book of Poetics on Comedy.\nJorge reveals that William\'s theories were correct and "rewards" him with the book, likely the only copy in existence.\nWilliam realizes that the corners of each page are coated with poison, and the dead monks had wet their fingers on their tongues to turn its pages.\nBelieving laughter to be sinful, Jorge thus killed those who had read the book.\nConfronted, Jorge starts a blaze that quickly engulfs the library.\nWilliam vainly tries to save some of the books.\nJorge kills himself by consuming the poison-coated pages.\nSeeing the fire, the monks abandon the prisoners, allowing the local peasants to save the girl and kill Gui by pushing his wagon off a cliff.\nAs William and Adso depart, Adso encounters the girl, but chooses to go with William.\nThe much older Adso states that he never regretted his decision, and that the girl was the only earthly love of his life, yet he never learned her name.