Despite revealing the killer’s motive and the means through which he killed his victims, William believes he failed his task and leaves the abbey with Adso. Not giving up, William and Adso continue their search for the criminal. The abbot, upset that William has yet to find the true murderer, fires him. When a member of the Inquisition, Bernard Gui, arrives, the investigation is derailed by his use of Papal deduction, leading to forced false confessions. As more men die, William only has his logic developed through studying Aristotle, his understanding of Aquinas’ theology, and his knowledge of Roger Bacon’s empirical science to aid in discovering the murderer. When an illuminator, Adelmo of Otranto, dies, Abo of Fossanova, the monastery’s abbot, assigns William to investigate. Set in 1327, the novel follows friar William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk as they travel to a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a debate concerning accusations of heresy. The Name of the Rose, originally published in Italy in 1980, uses Eco’s previous study to make many such references to medieval sources that the reader must solve, adding a certain Sherlock Holmes feeling to the work. In much of his work, Eco makes literary and historical references, exemplifying a subtle intertextuality, the connection between different works of literature. Throughout his life, Umberto Eco worked as novelist, literary critic, and academic.

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