The Name of The Rose
Copy signed by the author.
At the heart of a mysterious Benedictine abbey in northern Italy stands the tower housing the Library, “the greatest library in Christendom,” strictly closed, accessible only to the librarian. It is here that William of Baskerville has arranged a meeting between the Franciscans and the partisans of the Avignon pope John XXII, whom the Emperor opposes. But the external conflicts sheltered within the abbey in late November 1327 are compounded by an intrigue within its walls: a series of murders converge on the Labyrinth and the Library, and more precisely on a secret book…
An exceptional novel, concerned with Aristotle, freedom, injustice and cyanide.
Il nome della rosa was published in Italy in the spring of 1980. Winner of the Prix Médicis étranger in 1982, it was adapted for the screen by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Sean Connery, in 1986.