by Umberto Eco · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330284141
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«The Name of the Rose» is the historical mystery novel by Umberto Eco, published by Picador in paperback (502 pages, in English).
In 1327, the Franciscan William of Baskerville arrives at a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy to investigate a suspicion of heresy, but a series of mysterious deaths leads him to discover secrets hidden in the library. It is a historical thriller that pits faith, reason, power and knowledge against each other.
This edition is the English translation by William Weaver; the Italian original, Il nome della rosa, was published in 1980 and won the Strega Prize in 1981.
For readers of historical and mystery fiction who enjoy medieval enigmas, libraries and scholarly investigation plots.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
