Who wrote the novel 'The Name of the Rose'?
The Name of the Rose that of the portal of the church at Moissac, France. Dante Alighieri and his "Comedy" are mentioned once in passing. There is also a quick reference to a famous "Umberto of Bologna"—Umberto Eco himself. The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose ( ) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327; an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. It was translated into English by William Weaver in 1983. The novel has sold over
The Name of the Rose only the name. In this novel, the lost "rose" could be seen as Aristotle's book on comedy (now forever lost), the exquisite library now destroyed, or the beautiful peasant girl now dead. The title is also an allusion to the nominalist position in the problem of universals, taken by William of Ockham. According to nominalism, universals are bare names: there is not a universal rose, only the name "rose". This text has also been translated as "Yesterday's rose stands only in name, we hold only empty names." This line is a verse by twelfth century monk Bernard of Cluny (also