a northern Italian abbey · 1980 · citedThe Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
In 1327 the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his young novice Adso arrive at a rich Benedictine abbey in the mountains of northern Italy, where a series of deaths draws them into a labyrinthine library and a deadly secret about a forbidden book. Eco sets his medieval murder mystery at an unnamed monastery in the Ligurian Apennines: the scriptorium where the monks illuminate manuscripts, the great fortress-library of the Aedificium, the church and grounds, and the Inquisition that arrives to twist the search for truth.
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