It begins with the line, "On August 16, 1968, I was handed a book written by a certain Abbe Vallet," which claimed to reprodu
It begins with the line, "On August 16, 1968, I was handed a book written by a certain Abbe Vallet," which claimed to reproduce a 14th century manuscript composed by Adso of Melk. Adso serves as an apprentice and scribe to a visiting Franciscan and student of Roger Bacon named William of Baskerville. The mystery takes place in a French monastery with a forbidden library, cryptic Aedificium, and a supposedly lost treatise on comedy by Aristotle. FTP, name this novel, which contains large chunks of untranslated Latin, a work of Umberto Eco.
It begins with the line, "On August 16, 1968, I was handed a book written by a certain Abbe Vallet," which claimed to reproduce a 14th century manuscript composed by Adso of Melk.
The Name of the Rose