The Name of the Rose (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Umberto Eco
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: 1327
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Murder or homicide, Books, Libraries or librarians, Italy or Italians, Middle Ages, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Comedy, Poisons or poisoning, Fourteenth century
- Locales: Italy
Places Discussed
Abbey. Unnamed Catholic abbey in northern Italy that provides the novel’s setting. The abbey is modeled on abbeys of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Besides the central area of action—the library—the abbey includes a church, an infirmary, a chapter house, a cloister with dormitory, pilgrim quarters, stables, a smithy, mills, oil presses, granaries, pigpens, gardens, and a cemetery.
Library. Forbidden and mysterious area of the abbey, located in the Aedificium, a large octagonal building housing the kitchen and refectory on its lower floor...
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