text: In a novel from this country, the dying protagonist imagines death as a beautiful woman in traveling clothes.
full_question: In a novel from this country, the dying protagonist imagines death as a beautiful woman in traveling clothes. That novel from this country ends with three sisters throwing their father's taxidermied dog onto a rubbish heap. A character from this country meets Agliè, who may be the immortal Comte de Saint- Germain, while in Brazil after the disappearance of Colonel Ardenti. Three employees of Garamond Publishing use the computer (*) Abulafia to invent "the Plan" in a novel by an author from this country who also created an abbey housing a copy of a lost Aristotle work that is visited by Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville. For 10 points, name this country home to the author of The Leopard and the author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco.
first_sentence: In a novel from this country, the dying protagonist imagines death as a beautiful woman in traveling clothes.
raw_answer: Italy [or Italia; or Italian Republic]