Name Of The Rose characters
William of Baskerville is the protagonist of the novel Umberto Eco "The Name of the Rose," a fictional Franciscan monk. William came from England. He was studying at the Oxford and the University of Paris. To be more exact, William studied under the scientist and philosopher Roger Bacon...
In the declining years, the Benedictine monk Adso recalls events, an eyewitness, and participant of which he happened to be in 1327. When political and church discords shook Europe. In this confusion, Adso, then a young novice, accompanies the English Franciscan William of Baskerville in his...
Abo of Fossanova is the abbot of the unnamed Benedictine abbey. It should be noted that he is obsessed with protecting the honor of the abbey. That’s why Abo asks William to solve the mystery of the monks’ deaths at the abbey but releases him and Adso near the end of the novel when he...
Adelmo of Otranto, a monk who is the library's manuscript scholar, is the first victim to be found dead in this story. He died very, and it was quite strange for that situation. By the way, Adelmo was a gifted and attractive young illuminator. Without any doubt, the mystery grows more...
Remigio of Varagine is a former Franciscan who joined the Benedictines to escape religious persecution. Remigio (the abbey’s cellarer) is described as a joyful but rude person, with blonde hair and small but strong stature. Remigio admits that he was the first to find Venantius’s dead...
Salvatore of Montferrat is an assistant of Remigio of Varagine. Like Remigio, he was a supporter of Fra Dolcino and has taken sanctuary in the abbey. Salvatore speaks an unusual mixture of several languages, including Latin, an Italian dialect, and others. To be brief, Adso of Melk describes his...