A treatise in this language advised the title ruler that it was better to be feared than loved.
In one novel written in this language, Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville solve a murder mystery at a monastery. That work, The Name of the Rose, was published in this language eight years before the same author's Foucault's Pendulum. A treatise in this language advised the title ruler that it was better to be feared than loved. (*) For 10 points, name this language employed by writers like Umberto Eco and Niccolo Machiavelli.
In one novel written in this language, Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville solve a murder mystery at a monastery.
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