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Type: fiction
Status: favorite
Author: Umberto Eco
Tags: medieval mystery, science, religion, logic, philosophy,
Description: Narrated by a young benedictine monk, Adso of Melk, Umberto Eco pulls together a remarkablyNarrated by a young benedictine monk, Adso of Melk, Umberto Eco pulls together a remarkably complete tale of disturbing and pivotal occurences at a rich Abbey in the 1300s. Monks have been murdered just as a great meeting to determine the very powers of the pope and the legitimacy of the Franciscan movement to poverty is about to begin. Enter one William of Baskerville, an ex-inquisitor champion of logic and reason who resembles a Sherlock Holmes, but more. All of this chaos falls now on his shoulders to calmly search through and eliminate the wrong arriving cleanly at what could only be the Right....
2006-07-12
