An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
Starring
Sean ConneryF. Murray AbrahamChristian SlaterElya BaskinHelmut QualtingerRon Perlman
Directed by
Jean-Jacques Annaud
IMDb 7.7
2 h 6 min
1987
18+
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14. century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence which is considerable.—yusufpiskin
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A Medieval Murder Mystery
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DramaMysteryThriller
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Trivia
Sean Connery's career was at such a low point when he read for the role that Columbia Pictures refused to finance the movie when Jean-Jacques Annaud cast him as William von Baskerville.
Goofs
The secret message on the parchment is exposed three times. The translator heated it to reveal the location of the library, William of Baskerville heated it again when he was in the scriptorium and yet again to show the others the message. When a message is written in lemon juice, heating it will cause it to become exposed because the sugar in the juice is caramelized and thus would not disappear again.
Quotes
Adso of Melk: Master? Have you ever been in love?
William of Baskerville: In love? Yeah, many times.
Adso of Melk: You were?
William of Baskerville: Yes, of course. Aristotle, Ovid, Vergil...
Adso of Melk: No, no, no. I meant with a...
William of Baskerville: Oh. Ah. Are you not confusing love with lust?
Adso of Melk: Am I? I don't know. I want only her own good. I want her to be happy. I want to save her from her poverty.
William of Baskerville: Oh, dear.
Adso of Melk: Why "oh dear"?
William of Baskerville: You *are* in love.
Adso of Melk: Is that bad?
William of Baskerville: For a monk, it does present certain problems.
Adso of Melk: But doesn't St. Thomas Aquinas praise love above all other virtues?
William of Baskerville: Yes, the love of God, Adso. The love of God.
Adso of Melk: Oh... And the love of woman?
William of Baskerville: Of woman? Thomas Aquinas knew precious little, but the scriptures are very clear. Proverbs warns us, "Woman takes possession of a man's precious soul", while Ecclesiastes tells us, "More bitter than death is woman".
Adso of Melk: Yes, but what do you think, Master?
William of Baskerville: Well, of course I don't have the benefit of your experience, but I find it difficult to convince myself that God would have introduced such a foul being into creation without endowing her with *some* virtures. Hmm? How peaceful life would be without love, Adso, how safe, how tranquil, and how dull.
Crazy credits
The opening credits read - A palimpsest of Umberto Eco's Novel The Name of the Rose
Alternate versions
Certain prints of the movie have the sex scene between Adso and The Girl removed in order to comply with local laws.
Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Touch and Go/'Night, Mother/Blue Velvet/Where the River Runs Black (1986)
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The Novel Predates the Davinci Code by 20 years
A number of people have commented on the similarity of this film, and the Novel by Umberto Eco, to the DaVinci Code.
For those who were not born then, The Name of the Rose was published in 1980, thus predating DaVinci by about 20 or more years. I must admit that I found DaVinci to be a mass market popularization of Eco's theme, in short a "rip off".
Still, it may be the popularity of Brown's novel which has resulted in Name of the Rose being brought back in a DVD version, and for that I am truly thankful.
For a film which was not favorably reviewed by the critics, it is surprising how many reviewers 20 years later are giving it a 10. Either the film wore well or tastes have changed. I loved the film first time around and was delighted to find it on DVD.
Certainly the screenplay had to deviate from the philosophizing of the book.
It would have been almost unwatchably "talkie" had it not, and those of us who want to read the sermons/discussions can read the book. The film stands on it's own.
The most ominous feeling for me, living in the religious and politically free thinking 21st century, was the realization that
the church had such a grip on every aspect of life and thinking in the middle ages, and that any perceived repudiation of accepted Church dogma was deemed heresy and punishable by torture and a horrible death.
That one group of people should wield such power, and the length they would go to to hold on to that power is truly frightening.
The rigid class structure where the nobility and church owned the land which the peasants worked, and supported those above them while being kept down by those above, was very well conveyed in the film.
Life was short and hard, health was poor and the plague could return at any time, carrying off those who had not been carried off by the incessant wars.
Not a pleasant age to live. The period of the film is set just prior to the reformation. It is hardly surprising that the teachings of the various religious orders began to be questioned.
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thrillers Language: English Runtime: 120 minutes
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great story
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5.0 out of 5 stars Works perfectly
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Glenda Forster
1.0 out of 5 stars Wasted time and money purchasing this.
Reviewed in Australia on 12 June 2023
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Most boring, dreary Sean Connery movie I have ever seen.
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Jörg
5.0 out of 5 stars Connery in top form
Reviewed in Germany on 13 September 2023
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Great medieval film about the church and its activities.
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videoworm
4.0 out of 5 stars There are no audio or subtitles in Italian
Reviewed in Italy on 6 August 2023
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I don't know which edition was received by those who wrote on this page that there are Italian audio and subtitles. What I know is that the DVD I received, which is exactly the one in the illustration, has audio and subtitles only in German and English. For me it's fine, but I wanted to warn those who think of ordering it because they think they will find Italian, which is not the case.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Movie based on a Wonderful Book
Reviewed in the United States on 19 June 2005
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I never saw this film in the theatre. I saw it on TV many years ago and was enchanted with the medieval setting. I just recently got the DVD when I remembered the movie due to discussion of the book on an internet board I post on.
All I can say is that I am in awe of the work done by the director in bringing the book to the screen. The visuals alone express exactly the sense and the setting that Eco took pages and pages of info dump to allude to.
The size of the whole complex with small poorly clad men scuttling over it at the mercy of the weather accurately places man (in the understanding of the time) between cruel and capricious nature (i.e.: godlessness) and being dwarfed by the immense buildings dedicated to god, which represent his power and importance in the world, and the puny stature of man.
The dark interiors, lit only by fire highlight the fear, superstition and lack of education and outside contact that the average 'simple' person had. It made real the poverty and the terror and the precarious hold on life the people had, and how they would grasp at anything that promised safety and salvation. How it was so easy to believe in demons, and witches and other physical manifestations of their hard life. The strange look of the monks also represents the difficulty of surviving unscathed by disease, or accident.
At the ending of the medieval period the church had grown into a fat, rich, bloated institution more interested in temporal matters, and internal minutia (angels dancing on the head of a pin) than on acting as shepherds to god's flock.
The movie shows the Benedictine monks, the caretakers of the monastery and local flock, as those who started with a good heart, yet who uphold the status quo in fear rather than love. Because the times have changed, the flock's needs have multiplied, and the monks have not, they end up going through the motions of the religious life during the day, with venality creeping in during the dark hours: Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust, Acquisitiveness, and Selfishness.
Rather than copy and disburse books to uplift the darkness they hide them away, and prevent the spread of learning; keeping the knowledge as secret treasure for the select within the monastery. There are gradations of the select within the walls, leaving the monks in competition to become 'more select', rather than focusing on the needs of their flock, and god's work. All they do is dump refuse through their sewer and make the people scramble like animals to survive.
This is the setting upon which the future role of the church and god's place in man's affairs is to be debated, in the guise of the question `was Jesus poor? ` Where the regular church people are too afraid of change, and being branded heretics, yet no longer can really believe in the simple answers and rituals of the past, or rely on their superiors for good guidance.
The papal delegation, the Dominicans, are rich, fat, and far above the ordinary life of the monks or the 'simple' peasants. They do not wish to give up the wealth, the life of luxury, the ability to satisfy every personal whim, and the temporal power over kings, states, and the simple peasants that the current state of the church bestows on them. Within their ranks is an Inquisitor, the judge, and jury they use to keep any who question them in line, with threats of torture, horrible death, and damnation. They use the Inquisitor to stamp out those who have drunk at the deadly cup of ancient knowledge and who are beginning to question and think for themselves.
The Franciscans are the group who represent change, the desire to be free of the trappings of the past, who want to minister to the needs of the people both physical and spiritual and leave power and wealth to Caesar. They are concerned about the good and bad of the knowledge that can lead one to sin, but they are not all the same and not all want the books hidden or destroyed. Some believe that using the reason god gave them, they will find more to worship the creator for. Though their oldest member, Ubertino shows that they come from the same past as the Benedictines.
The deaths and murders in the monastery are the outward manifestation of unease, sin, and the breakdown of real belief in the past solutions the church is preaching. Enter William of Baskerville, and his young novice, who represent the coming of the renaissance, the coming of reason, knowledge and enlightenment. They move within the rhythms of the monastery, while staying true to their own beliefs. They try to set the wrongs to right, and move the Benedictines to open their library and disburse the knowledge they hoard, while winning the dispute with the papal legation, and ultimately staying alive. In some they are successful, and in some they are not - much like life.
I can't give the movie 5 stars, because too little time and context was set up so that the viewer who had not read the book would understand what the debate stood for, and what the Greek book stood for. Without those clues, the movie seems a lot of to-do about some really trivial matters, yet they are still issues we are struggling with today.
This is a movie that you can watch over and over, and pick up and revel in all the details, as well as the wonderful performances. There are some who think Gui, and Salvatore are over the top, but in fact they are needed as they show real human passion escaping from the control of a repressed setting. The sex scene is also needed for the story and really rather beautiful.
The movie actually led me to read the book, and I think that those who complain about the movie being different don't understand that the movie must be visual, and that what they think is lacking in the story is mostly presented in the visuals. I agree with the director who said The Name of The Rose is a bestseller which most who purchase don't read, and that if you can read and understand the book, you can also understand and appreciate the movie. The quibble about the ending is really a matter of your preference for the tone, hopeful, or not.
The director's commentary and the documentary on the making of the movie are very good, as is the director's photo tour. The music, sets, lighting, and cinematography are magnificent.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Once upon a time in 1327...
Reviewed in Germany on 21 July 2015
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With 5,896,891 viewers, “The Name of the Rose” by Jean Jacques Annaud is one of the most successful box office hits Made in Germany. The Bernd Eichinger production was created in 1986 in collaboration with France and Italy. It wasn't just the audience that loved the film - contemporary critics were also positive and the convoluted medieval crime thriller based on the great novel by the Italian Umberto Eco also won the silver film ribbon. The world-famous designer Dante Feretti also won gold at the German Film Awards and Sean Connery won gold for his performance as the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville, who, with the instinct of Sherlock Holmes, wants to solve strange deaths in a small compartment in the Apennines in 1327.
The success also spread internationally. “The Name of the Rose” earned its director Jean Jacques Annaud the Cesar for best foreign film. There were also a total of four David Di Donatello Awards in Italy.
The film didn't do so well in the USA. Well-known critics expressed themselves rather negatively and found the filming to be far too chaotic and the characters exaggerated and cliched, almost as if they had come out of parodies.
In fact, some of the actors had to have a strong courage to be ugly, but for me the characters we get to know in this eerie abbey look very authentic. In any case, the faces of these monks are very distinctive and drawn. No matter whether they are called Jorge von Burgos (Fyodor Chaliapin), Malachias von Hildesheim (Volker Prechtel), Remigo da Varagine (Helmut Qualtinger), Salvatore (Ron Perlman) or Severinus von St. Emmeran (Elya Baskin).
In this very popular historical film, the spirit of a bygone era is magnificently evoked, which, as a dark age, was very much influenced by the great fear of God. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) has great ambitions to solve the murders in an abbey, which his confreres quickly interpret as a Last Judgment and Apocalypse
As the story progresses, we learn of his past as an inqusitor accused of heresy. Baskerville is a lover of books, he is known for his sharp mind and he secretly has a modern anachronistic character within him. He is accompanied by his adlatus, the young Benedictine novice Adson von Melk (Christian Slater in his first film role), the youngest son of a noble count, who, as in the novel, also takes on the role of the first-person narrator... a long time after this Events in the abbey - as an old monk, on the threshold of his death, he writes down these horrific and memorable experiences from back then that he witnessed.
William of Baskerville is supposed to take part in a theological dispute in the Benedictine abbey. The spiritual leader of the Franciscans (William Hickey) is already on site and other brothers in faith are to follow.
It is the time of the Avignonese Papacy, the Franciscans are supposed to discuss the explosive theological question of the poverty of the church with an expected embassy from Pope John XXII, which is also said to include the notorious inquisitor Berarndo Gui (F. Murray Abraham). and maybe come to an agreement.
But the lives of the monks in the abbey are overshadowed by the strange death of the young, pretty monk Adelmo of Otranto (Lars Bodin-Jorgensen). The monks believe that the devil had a hand in it and expect the apocalypse to begin. The Abbot (Michael Lonsdale) asks Willam of Baskerville for advice. He quickly finds out that the cause of the monk's death was not the work of the devil, but a suicide. Everything seems to calm down again when the Greek translator Venatus von Salvernec (Urs Athaus) is found murdered in the monastery's butcher's shop. Everything points to poisoning and William finds out that he was good friends with Adelmo. The dead man had blackened fingers and a blackened tongue. He believes that the suicide and murder also have something to do with the monastery's library, to which they are not allowed access. The librarian's assistant, the fat, feminine Berengar von Arundel (Michael Habeck), also has a rather strange name. During the criminal investigation, Adson meets a farm girl (VAlentina Vargas) during a nighttime pursuit, who lovingly seduces him. Willam himself has almost solved the case when he finds the monastery library, which turns out to be an almost inaccessible labyrinth. Then the papal delegation arrives. Bernardo Gui takes on the case. who lovingly seduces him. Willam himself has almost solved the case when he finds the monastery library, which turns out to be an almost inaccessible labyrinth. Then the papal delegation arrives. Bernardo Gui takes on the case. who lovingly seduces him. Willam himself has almost solved the case when he finds the monastery library, which turns out to be an almost inaccessible labyrinth. Then the papal delegation arrives. Bernardo Gui takes on the case.
and thus the viewer witnesses the ghastly crimes committed in the name of the Holy Inquisition. Suspects who must be in league with the devil are quickly found and just as quickly they are to receive a just death at the stake. It is not the devil who is the cause of the murders, but a missing book: the second book of Aristotle's Poetics. in which the ancient philosopher, after the tragedy, deals with comedy and thus also laughter in his first part. And this seems to be a very dangerous subject in the dark times of godliness. The positive attitude towards joy and humor represented in this work, which was believed to be lost, seems incompatible with reverence for the creator.
It is clear that the film can never achieve the complexity of the great novel. The multi-layered novel is, on the one hand, an epochal work, but also a philosophical essay. But as a broad historical crime story, the film works just as perfectly as the novel. The substance of the dark and harmonious images creates a vivid picture of monastic life in the late Middle Ages and the religious, political and social trends. Great actors reinforce the positive image. Sean Connery shines, but it is also the young Christian Slater who is remembered as Adson von Melk. He is a young person who is torn back and forth by the currents of his time and still has to carve out a place for himself in his life and in the future. No question, that these elementary events of life and death will have a lasting impact on people throughout their lives. "The Name of the Rose" - a commercial film through and through, but also an exciting masterpiece of European cinema.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great classic
Reviewed in Germany on 16 August 2023
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I bought this great classic used here on Amazon. Was significantly cheaper. You can also see signs of wear on the CD case but the CD itself is without any scratches. It's okay for me.
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Why is the movie called The Name of the Rose?
In another version of the story, Eco had wanted the neutral title Adso of Melk, but that was vetoed by his publisher, and then the title The Name of the Rose “came to me virtually by chance.” In the Postscript to the Name of the Rose, Eco claims to have chosen the title “because the rose is a symbolic figure so rich in …
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Why is Umberto Eco’s book called The Name of the Rose? In another version of the story, Eco had wanted the neutral title Adso of Melk, but that was vetoed by his publisher, and then the title The Name of the Rose “came to me virtually by chance.” In the Postscript to the Name of the Rose, Eco claims to have chosen the title “because the rose is a symbolic figure so rich in …
Who plays the pope in the name of the rose? Sundance Acquires ‘Name of the Rose’ Starring John Turturro
Papal powers, class structure among holy orders, homosexual desires and the allure of witches and women are debated — 1327 was a wild time. This is also a period piece trying to wring drama from the confusion.
Who narrates the name of the rose?
The Name of the Rose (film)
The Name of the Rose
Starring
Sean Connery F. Murray Abraham Feodor Chaliapin Jr. William Hickey Michael Lonsdale Ron Perlman Christian Slater Valentina Vargas
Narrated by
Dwight Weist
Cinematography
Tonino Delli Colli
Edited by
Jane Seitz
What happens to the girl in the name of the rose? She is brought to the abbey by Salvatore to have sex with Remigio in exchange for food for her family. … She is sentenced to be burned at the stake and taken from the abbey along with Remigio and Salvatore. Get the entire The Name of the Rose LitChart as a printable PDF.
IS THE NAME OF THE ROSE hard to read?
It’s a challenging book. It’s dense in parts, at times overly detailed in its treatment of religious and historical ideas. The characters are initially difficult to track. They’re all really just a bunch of monks and are hard to differentiate.
Where was Name of the Rose filmed? In 1985 and 1986, for the film version of Umberto Eco’s dark medieval murder mystery “The Name of the Rose,” Eberbach Abbey was the location for almost all the interior scenes. Annaud had visited about 300 monasteries in several countries before he made his choice.
What is the message in The Name of the Rose?
The Name of the Rose, Italian Il nome della rosa, novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco, published in Italian in 1980. Although the work stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of the meaning of “truth” from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives.
What is the forbidden book in The Name of the Rose?
Jorge believes that the manuscript—which contains the only surviving copy of the lost second book of Aristotle’s Poetics, on comedy—is a dangerous book that poses an existential threat to the authority of the church and the endurance of God’s intended social order.
IS THE NAME OF THE ROSE worth reading? It’s a clever enough book about language, faith, and belief as well as a good mystery novel. And a deconstruction of the Sherlock Holmes vision of detection and rationality. It can take some work, true, but it’s worthwhile. , A decades-long passion for history.
What is the message of The Name of the Rose? The Name of the Rose, Italian Il nome della rosa, novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco, published in Italian in 1980. Although the work stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of the meaning of “truth” from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives.
Is the Name of the Rose a classic?
Publishing legend Robert Giroux once said, “A ‘classic‘ book is a book that stays in print.” On that level alone Eco’s The Name of The Rose is classic — and one of the most enjoyable novels written in the past 30 years, in any language.
Is The Name of the Rose Cancelled? Learn how The Name of the Rose stacks up against other SundanceTV TV shows. As of January 5, 2022, The Name of the Rose has not been cancelled or renewed for a second season.
What happens to the peasant girl in The Name of the Rose?
She is sentenced to be burned at the stake and taken from the abbey along with Remigio and Salvatore.
IS The Name of the Rose hard to read? It’s a challenging book. It’s dense in parts, at times overly detailed in its treatment of religious and historical ideas. The characters are initially difficult to track. They’re all really just a bunch of monks and are hard to differentiate.
Where was the Rose movie filmed?
The “Rose” crew was seen in and around Truth or Consequences for about a month (in October 2016), filming at the Bowling Alley, at private residences around town, in Hillsboro, and elsewhere. For more information on film in Sierra County check out SierraCountyFilm.com.
What is the forbidden book in the name of the rose? Jorge believes that the manuscript—which contains the only surviving copy of the lost second book of Aristotle’s Poetics, on comedy—is a dangerous book that poses an existential threat to the authority of the church and the endurance of God’s intended social order.
What is the reason for the huge success of the novel The Name of the Rose?
“The Name of the Rose” is a detective and serious novel of Umberto Eco. It enjoyed a mass audience. It delves into metaphysics, theology and medieval history. It became popular because it gave the reader deep, varied and thought provoking material.
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Is the name of the rose on prime? Watch The Name of the Rose Season 1 | Prime Video.
Is the Name of the Rose on Apple TV? The Name of the Rose | Apple TV. Why is the movie called The Name of the Rose?
In another version of the story, Eco had wanted the neutral title Adso of Melk, but that was vetoed by his publisher, and then the title The Name of the Rose “came to me virtually by chance.” In the Postscript to the Name of the Rose, Eco claims to have chosen the title “because the rose is a symbolic figure so rich in …
Beside this Did Jesus laugh the name Rose?
Why is Umberto Eco’s book called The Name of the Rose? In another version of the story, Eco had wanted the neutral title Adso of Melk, but that was vetoed by his publisher, and then the title The Name of the Rose “came to me virtually by chance.” In the Postscript to the Name of the Rose, Eco claims to have chosen the title “because the rose is a symbolic figure so rich in …
Who plays the pope in the name of the rose? Sundance Acquires ‘Name of the Rose’ Starring John Turturro
Papal powers, class structure among holy orders, homosexual desires and the allure of witches and women are debated — 1327 was a wild time. This is also a period piece trying to wring drama from the confusion. Who narrates the name of the rose?
The Name of the Rose (film) The Name of the Rose Starring Sean Connery F. Murray Abraham Feodor Chaliapin Jr. William Hickey Michael Lonsdale Ron Perlman Christian Slater Valentina Vargas Narrated by Dwight Weist Cinematography Tonino Delli Colli Edited by Jane Seitz
What happens to the girl in the name of the rose? She is brought to the abbey by Salvatore to have sex with Remigio in exchange for food for her family. … She is sentenced to be burned at the stake and taken from the abbey along with Remigio and Salvatore. Get the entire The Name of the Rose LitChart as a printable PDF.
IS THE NAME OF THE ROSE hard to read?
It’s a challenging book. It’s dense in parts, at times overly detailed in its treatment of religious and historical ideas. The characters are initially difficult to track. They’re all really just a bunch of monks and are hard to differentiate.
Where was Name of the Rose filmed? In 1985 and 1986, for the film version of Umberto Eco’s dark medieval murder mystery “The Name of the Rose,” Eberbach Abbey was the location for almost all the interior scenes. Annaud had visited about 300 monasteries in several countries before he made his choice. What is the message in The Name of the Rose?
The Name of the Rose, Italian Il nome della rosa, novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco, published in Italian in 1980. Although the work stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of the meaning of “truth” from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives.
What is the forbidden book in The Name of the Rose?
Jorge believes that the manuscript—which contains the only surviving copy of the lost second book of Aristotle’s Poetics, on comedy—is a dangerous book that poses an existential threat to the authority of the church and the endurance of God’s intended social order.
IS THE NAME OF THE ROSE worth reading? It’s a clever enough book about language, faith, and belief as well as a good mystery novel. And a deconstruction of the Sherlock Holmes vision of detection and rationality. It can take some work, true, but it’s worthwhile. , A decades-long passion for history.
What is the message of The Name of the Rose? The Name of the Rose, Italian Il nome della rosa, novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco, published in Italian in 1980. Although the work stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of the meaning of “truth” from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives. Is the Name of the Rose a classic?
Publishing legend Robert Giroux once said, “A ‘classic‘ book is a book that stays in print.” On that level alone Eco’s The Name of The Rose is classic — and one of the most enjoyable novels written in the past 30 years, in any language. Is The Name of the Rose Cancelled? Learn how The Name of the Rose stacks up against other SundanceTV TV shows. As of January 5, 2022, The Name of the Rose has not been cancelled or renewed for a second season.
What happens to the peasant girl in The Name of the Rose?
She is sentenced to be burned at the stake and taken from the abbey along with Remigio and Salvatore.
IS The Name of the Rose hard to read? It’s a challenging book. It’s dense in parts, at times overly detailed in its treatment of religious and historical ideas. The characters are initially difficult to track. They’re all really just a bunch of monks and are hard to differentiate. Where was the Rose movie filmed?
The “Rose” crew was seen in and around Truth or Consequences for about a month (in October 2016), filming at the Bowling Alley, at private residences around town, in Hillsboro, and elsewhere. For more information on film in Sierra County check out SierraCountyFilm.com.
What is the forbidden book in the name of the rose? Jorge believes that the manuscript—which contains the only surviving copy of the lost second book of Aristotle’s Poetics, on comedy—is a dangerous book that poses an existential threat to the authority of the church and the endurance of God’s intended social order.
What is the reason for the huge success of the novel The Name of the Rose?
“The Name of the Rose” is a detective and serious novel of Umberto Eco. It enjoyed a mass audience. It delves into metaphysics, theology and medieval history. It became popular because it gave the reader deep, varied and thought provoking material.
Three monks have died, and William of Baskerville has so far failed to find the killer. The feared papal inquisitor, Bernard Gui , takes over the investigation and declares that the abbey has been infected by witchcraft.
Umberto Eco's murder mystery, dramatised by Chris Dolan.
Umberto Eco's enigmatic murder mystery chart: seven fateful days in the life of a medieval abbey in Italy. As monks from all over Europe gather to resolve the Dower struggle between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, a young monk is found dead. The Abbot fears either murder or witchcraft and asks William of Baskerville to investigate.
Dramatised by Chris Dolan.
Other parts played by members of the cast
Producer/Director Bruce Young
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0:02[Music] 0:23[Music] 0:34the name of the rose by umberto echo dramatized by chris 0:39dolan in two parts part one i was 17 years old at the time 0:46and my life was about to change forever i was moved by the desire for truth 0:54and by the suspicion that until now it was not what i was told why are you 0:59following me because you're interesting it's not a good reason for following anyone 1:05i'm afraid i must continue my journey alone my friend remember when you leave this earth you 1:11can take nothing you have received but only what you have given 1:16the world is like a great book you must learn to read it correctly 1:22there is only one way to battle against ignorance and hatred use knowledge to better the human race i 1:29have never regretted my decision for i learned from my master much that 1:34was wise and good and true when at last reported company he 1:40presented me with his eyeglasses i was still young he said but someday 1:45they would serve me well and in fact i am wearing them now on my nose as i write these lines 1:53then he embraced me fondly like a father and sent me on my way 1:59i never saw him again and know not what became of him but i pray always that god 2:04received his soul and forgave the many little vanities to which he was driven by his intellectual 2:10pride and yet now that i am an old 2:16old man i must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past the 2:23one i see most clearly is that of the girl whom i have never ceased to dream 2:29these many long years she was the only earthly love of my life 2:37yet i never knew nor ever learned 2:42her name [Music] 2:48in the beginning was the word and the word was with god 2:54and the word was god in this age we see through a glass darkly 3:00the truth can only be seen in fragments in shadows all we can do is interpret those 3:07faithful signals even when they seem obscure to us and bent on evil 3:16omnipotent god 3:22can't you hear me i'm guilty of monstrous things 3:27vile pleasures of the body greed to know things that you have kept hidden from us 3:34i'm already damned forgive me my brothers 3:41i am beyond the savior's mercy [Music] 3:55uh 4:09[Music] 4:15almost there radzo where was i yes 4:20john for nearly 20 years now a beloved father pope john the 22nd heretical corrupt 4:28beast that is has reigned in avignon three years since he dared excommunicate 4:33louis the holy roman emperor himself why power attack 4:39power john wants it all for himself and all the money jews and canality he can 4:44muster and we've traveled all this way for a meeting that will try to keep up as 4:50intellectually and physically i'm three times your age boy now john has chosen the question of 4:56poverty for his next battlefield with louis he condemns my order of franciscans 5:02devoted as we are to the simple people sharing their and christ's poverty 5:08the rogue tries to link us with heretics with heretics yes come on 5:14if you benedictines practice more discipline you might be able to walk and think at the same time 5:21now we are here to seek a truce to secure the safe passage of my franciscan father michael of cecena to meet with 5:29the best you'll pop himself in avignon yes god protect us 5:34wait for me master having reached the end of my poor sinner's life i had so of milk commit to 5:43paper now a record of the wondrous and terrible events of my youth 5:49in the year of our lord 1327 i was appointed scribe and disciple to the 5:55learned franciscan brother william of baskerville now the important conclave between the 6:00warring factions of the church uh meeting which i did not then fully understand 6:06took place high in the apennine mountains in a monastery of my order 6:12our destination this abbey is rightly famous 6:19oh just look a quadrangular construction a heptagonal tower 6:26an admirable concorde of holy numbers four gospels the seven gifts of the holy ghost 6:34this abbott likes a great display oh but the book sides of 6:39the books we'll find in there that dark impregnable abbey prompted no 6:45feelings of wonder in my young mind rather fear and trepidation 6:51but both my fears and williams hopes were to be fulfilled within a week 6:57a mere seven days that determined my whole life 7:05we have three days ago before the pope's envoy and his negation arrive three days to rest and enjoy your 7:11benedictine hospitality williams heights surpassed that of a normal man and he was so thin that he 7:19seemed still taller he had the expression of a man constantly on the lookout 7:25he was already old having seen perhaps 50 springs but his tireless body moved with an 7:31agility i myself a boy lacked along the journey 7:37i'd come to understand that william was moved solely by a desire for the truth 7:42and suspected that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment 7:50william of baskerville at last a great joy it is to set foot in such a 7:55celebrated abbey father abbott but i thought we'd arrived early you have 8:01indeed forgive me but i have need of your powers for a matter other than the conclave i'll 8:07explain presently brothers water for our guests a benedictine tradition to wash the 8:13hands and feet of all our guests the boy as well 8:20your skills as ecclesiastical mediator brother william are sorely needed for the confrontation to take place here 8:27but it's your experience as inquisitor that i must call on first i am no longer in that profession i know 8:34i know but you were once in many cases i hear you decided be 8:39accused before he was innocent sadly in these dark days i see the hand 8:45and the constant presence of the evil ones even an inquisitor can be impelled 8:50by the devil come we'll talk inside [Music] 8:57shall i unload your travel sack master go ahead your arrival is timely william 9:05if ill own him in this abbey something has happened 9:11novice go to the kitchens remedio will give you bread and milk thank you 9:16master a young adult has been entrusted as my scribe by your own order and sworn to 9:22secrecy as if in confession i'm not as young as i was think about my 9:27memory if you insist 9:33we have here a catastrophe that requires the attention of an acute 9:39and prudent man such as you acute if you understand me 9:45in uncovering and prudent if necessary in covering i am at 9:51your service one of our younger brothers adelmo of otranto a master illuminator 9:58was found this morning at the bottom of the cliff below the edificium he was acquired during compline and did 10:05not reappear for matins he must have fallen during the night ah where have you buried 10:11please sit in the cemetery naturally so this is your problem if that unhappy 10:18youth god forbid committed suicide you would have found one of the windows open but they were all closed how did you 10:24know you told me now if a window had been open you would have thought adelma had thrown himself 10:30from it in which case you would not have buried him in consecrated ground therefore he must have been pushed 10:36either by human hand or diabolical force they had not told me enough about your 10:41talents so i must admit the possibility that another of my flock has stained himself 10:49with the sin of murder is there nothing else you have the power to say 10:55please brother william eternal the seal of confession you need 11:01me to uncover a secret concerning a delmo which you yourself cannot reveal 11:07may i question the mugs you may and move freely about the abbey i grant you that 11:12power but not the top floor of the edificium 11:17our library is not like others it is said to be the equal to the 36 11:23libraries of baghdad and so scholar monks come from all over the world to work in it our library is 11:29the salvation of ancient learning amen but why can't it not be visited 11:35the library was laid out on a plan which has remained obscure for centuries only the librarian receives the secret 11:43from the librarian who preceded him he communicates it to his assistant 11:48so that death will not take him by surprise the secret seals the lips of both men 11:55so how do we gain access to all these treasures the monks in the scriptorium may request certain volumes and not 12:01others so as not to pursue every foolish proud or diabolical curiosity there are books 12:06containing falsehoods the kabbalahs of the jews fables of pagan poets the lies of the 12:13infidels none but two people can enter the library myself 12:19and the brother librarian even if another wished the library will 12:25defend itself you might enter and never emerge hmm 12:33what was that at this time of year they slaughter pigs child 12:38this isn't the blood that concerns you 12:49what a fine garden are you the brother herbalist severinus of saint vennel you're 12:56interested in herbalism brother william i see the abbot has proclaimed their arrival 13:02the garden sings the mercy of the creator ah 13:08had you much occasion to talk with poor brother adelma no 13:14so you don't know if adelmo had visions visions like the ones some herbs induce 13:19for example i store dangerous herbs with great care adelmo spent his days in the scriptorium 13:25which i seldom visit he was closer to brothers jorge vanantius and naturally 13:31bearing her naturally the assistant librarian that's all i meant 13:37perhaps it's time i'd so for us to visit the scriptorium after dinner please 13:45you've been addicted to know how to cook a dinner ox meat chicken field the bread smells heavenly i'm so 13:52hungry i have never in my life been visited by 13:58the devil but i imagine he would have the very features of the creature who appeared 14:04before us that evening watch out for the draco that cometh to know your anima 14:09the monks head was hairless and not shaved but the result of some eczema 14:15the brow was so low that had he had hair it would have mingled with his eyebrows 14:22whether his gaze was innocent or maligned i couldn't say i never knew what language salvatore 14:28spoke all languages and none or one of his own making 14:34el diablo no why did you say penitentiary 14:40must do penitencia no have you had dealings with the followers of docino 14:48what did you ask him if he was a doctor the presence of heretics would 14:54uh complicate our meeting chinos followers are infamous for their feasting 15:00which is not to say that we can't enjoy our hosts hospitality eat at all before we visit a murdered man's place of work 15:1032. the scriptorium was suffused with the 15:15most beautiful light i've ever seen a desk with quills knives for sharpening 15:22ink horns was situated under every huge window 40 desks for 40 months a truly perfect 15:29number plus one for the librarian himself who if i'm not mistaken doesn't approve of 15:35visitors in his scriptorium good evening brothers i am malachi 15:42of christendom's greatest library i am brother william of baskerville 15:48there was something upsetting about malachi's appearance draped in his black habit and his hood 15:55unlowered these books on your desk they've been taken from the library for 16:01the scribes and illuminators to study they request them i fetch them 16:20italicus splendid works where's the library itself directly 16:26above azadzu these annotations they're your cataloging system 16:31three gradus four fifth imprimagra column the first number indicates the position 16:38of the book on the shelf which itself is denoted by the second number the final phrase 16:44designates the room of the library which only the librarian can decipher 16:49fascinating could i see the codices brother adelma was illuminating before his tragic 16:55demise his desk is at the north end of the scriptorium 17:03let me introduce some of our brothers financiers of salvamat translated of greek and arabic servant brother william 17:10berger my assistant librarian you are very welcome brothers and there benno of 17:16upsala jorge el bulgos ayamara of alessandria and this 17:21is adelmo's desk adelma was an illuminator working on marginalia nobody has touched his work 17:28the drawings in the salta adelma had been working on what a wonder 17:34a topsy-turvy world in which dogs flee the hair and deer hunt the lion 17:40zebra striped dragons monkeys with stags horns 17:46fish with birds wings and birds with fishtails 17:56the old man was as white as snow not only his skin but his blind eyes the 18:02man before you venerable in age and wisdom is jorge of bulgos as there is 18:07bad speech so there are bad images images that lie about creation perhaps 18:13god can be named only through the most distorted images i'm told that franciscans view merriment with 18:19indulgence our lord did not employ such foolish things christ never laughed 18:25nothing in his human nature forbade it the son of man could laugh but it is not written that he did so vulnerable jorge 18:33your virtue makes you unjust vanantius two days before adelma died we debated 18:38this very subject adelma to care that his art was directed to the glory of god 18:43i reminded him that the great aristotle i'm old financiers i don't remember i 18:48may have been excessively severe i must go we cannot remember every debate we have 18:54here an old man may forget brother beringer but i expect a sharper recollection from 19:00the young particularly when discussing such a dear friend of yours the antichrist is coming 19:06do not squander your last seven days with [Music] 19:22laughter before supper william decided to explore a little further 19:28and we came upon the smithy nicholas of morimondo the master glazier 19:33was setting colored glass and gems into a reliquary you must have much work here nicholas 19:40repairing so many abbey windows uh it's impossible now to find the colors of the old days the age of giants is past we 19:49are dwarfs but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of giants sometimes we can see further on the 19:55horizon than they what can we do better than our learned ancients let me show 20:01you something i've heard tell of them 20:07a simple forked pin so constructed that it can stay on a man's nose 20:13two ovals of metal holding elements of glass they allow better vision than nature has 20:18endowed me many would speak of witchcraft 20:24our library here is defended by magic really a monk once entered the library after 20:31dark when he emerged he was half mad but how did he enter if the place is so 20:37staunchly guarded they say you can enter through the asarium over the bones of dead monks 20:46they keep watch this is your first night here 20:52look for the ghostly glow in the library i must go to vespers 20:58the first angel sounded the first trumpet and hail and fire fell mingled 21:04with blood what did he mean st john's apocalypse adelma's blood was mingled with snow and 21:10hail now if their suppers here are as good as their dinners 21:20[Music] 21:34excellent you know the more i think about it 21:40the more i'm convinced adelma killed himself why hmm 21:46well why would anyone kill him nominee 21:51dominique queen 21:57i think they're all keeping something quiet perhaps though they insinuate some strange 22:04relationship between adelmo and the assistant librarian berengar look 22:09ato malachi coming in through the side chapel 22:14another door exists to the library a secret passage through the osarium as nicholas said 22:26i was never to get much sleep in that abbey even when william was not leading me on 22:32nocturnal adventures or i was um pursuing shameful adventures of my own 22:39there were constant interruptions and prayers 22:46but dawn greeted us with an even ruder interruption 22:57the dawn sky was light and the snow lay thickly in front of the pigpens stood a great 23:03jar of pig's blood and out of it protruded two legs the monk's head thrusts downwards into the 23:10blood god save us pull him out of there me brother nicholas give her a hand 23:22clean his face the second trumpet and a third part of the sea became blood he died in a sea of blood you see 23:29something is a foot in this abbey who now 23:34benantius the greek scholar brother william i beseech you 23:40was vernantius present in choir during office no his stall was empty no one else was absent not that i noticed 23:47beringo was there he was brother severinas 23:53have you ever seen a drowned man many times but brother van anter's features aren't 24:00swollen then he was already dead when someone threw him into the jar who would have done that 24:07we're dealing with a twisted mind habit severinus take him to the boundary to be 24:12washed and examined i'll join you there father abbott please instruct the monks to return to the choir by the path they 24:18took before come hanzo [Applause] 24:26everything's covered in snow snow adzo is an admirable parchment on which men leave very legible writing 24:34now look between here in the church there has been a great bustle of monks 24:39what do you see over there what am i looking for vanantius didn't throw himself into the blood jar 24:45someone carried him there dead footprints 24:51one set only very faint [Applause] that's excellent 24:56some monk passed this way in the night and there's a line a trail from the jar so he must have come from 25:03the refactory to the edificium the library once again that's where fernandez died why the 25:10library put yourself in the murderer's place if you had killed him in the refectory why 25:15not leave him there if you killed him in the library the body would never have been discovered 25:21our murderer wants to deflect our attention 25:29no wounds no bruising on the head i feel faint 25:36do you have any poisons in your laboratory severinus aguilino from cafe 25:43this is asanako a mortal poison for anyone who swallows it 25:48here mumia very rare produced by the decomposition of 25:54mummified cadavers tried to think scientifically 25:59and you found no sign of any poison on the corpse many poisons leave no trace 26:04nothing has been removed recently no and the plants we were speaking of yesterday which of these can induce 26:11visions i would have to think 26:17provenantus who did this i would have to think 26:25[Music] 26:47they must be questioned right away why ours is a hard task the inquisitor must 26:53strike the weakest and to the moment of their greatest weakness brother beno a moment 27:01yes the argument in the library over books which ones 27:07i don't remember does it matter we're trying to understand what has 27:12happened amongst men who live among books with books from books yet the 27:18library seems to house texts that are kept secret from you venantius mentioned the book about 27:23riddles and beringer said that if one sought carefully among the africans the answer to riddles could be found 27:30meaning what that african poets should be more widely read 27:36anyone who knows the library's catalogue will find many references to phoenix afrikay 27:42malachi became angry and sent berengar off to his tasks then what 27:48that evening i saw beringer and adelma in the cloister adelmo the first victim 27:54did you hear that conversation behringer had a mad passion for adelmo he proposed 28:00a veil barter knowledge in exchange for more temporal favors 28:05have you never been tempted father to do something shameful to get your hands on a book tell what you have 28:11to tell benno i saw them go off to the dormitory and 28:16they almost slipped into beringer's cell later adelma fled and ran straight to 28:22jorge to confess his sin no doubt then beringer followed him out to the cemetery 28:29and i wasn't the only one to witness all this who else i saw him in the shadows the second 28:35victim yes venantius 28:42oh my culpa mia maxima culpa 28:48brother beringa you were the last to see adelma alive me 28:54i saw him going off to bed like everyone else we know you saw him again 29:01i saw him already dead dead in the cemetery 29:06moving among the graves his face are corpses his eyes already held eternal punishment 29:14he said to me i am damned you see me returned from hell and to 29:21hell i must go back he said i believed my body a place of 29:27pleasure i sought to know more than others and now the fire blazes and burns me 29:35and then he said give me your hand my beautiful master 29:40he held out his hand and a drop of sweat fell on mine and burned my hand 29:48hail and fire the first trumpet and then he disappeared among the graves a ghost among ghosts 29:54the beautiful we now understand it too well beringa but master you're the same age 30:00had you taught him something no i don't know why he called me that 30:06father hear my confession no berengar do not seal my lips by opening yours 30:14it was a dark night how could you have seen adelma's face was pale 30:19perhaps i had a light no no he had a light go now confess your sins were the delmon 30:26to the lord i will again 30:31now many things become clear clear the ghost of adelma 30:38downward does not seem very ghostly to me as though these monks read too much and when they're excited they relive 30:44visions they've learned in books adelmo died of suicide 30:50baron kasturi tells us that after committing his crime against chastity adelma confessed in great 30:57agitation to the venerable jorge then he went to the cemetery and finally 31:02threw himself down the cliff from the library what about the burning sweat 31:08elmo was carrying a taper the drop in binninger's hand was wax but if adelma confessed 31:15we believe in a merciful god his confessor might not he frightened him to death 31:21and venantius knew all this too that's why he was killed 31:26milk we need milk adzo milk to feed the mind 31:36overhears a delmo and beringer secret about the library and goes in search on his own 31:46until someone stops him kills him barringer 31:51or malachi the guardian of the library secrets old jorge 31:57the venerable jorge seems to know everything about everyone he confessed the first victim 32:04how can a frail blind man kill a vigorous youth and put his body in a jar 32:11banner you there do not throw away food i give them to 32:17the poor feeling dear you call salvatore fartable 32:22i am a monk of sanctuary benedict 32:28i feel our case may be more complicated than we think and nothing will be clear until we have 32:34visited the library but the abbott forbade us to the abbot what's a mystery solved 32:46nicholas you said there was a rumor that monks could enter the library at night via the 32:51osarium the third altar in the chapel has a door to the dead monk's boons the 32:57one carved with a thousand skeletons where is the door the fourth skull on the right 33:02say if you press the eyes but you mustn't go there i made no mention that i would better 33:09reading john's apocalypse listen out for the third trumpet 33:15a third part of the creatures of the sea will die 33:34skulls the cemetery is directly above us 33:41the bones of the monks drop gradually through the earth and collect here 33:51now you can see why malachi is so grave now he comes through here twice daily 33:57truly he has nothing to laugh about up these 34:04steps there's someone ahead how did he get in 34:10this monastery must be littered with secret tunnels if there is someone up there let's hope 34:16he's as afraid of us as we are of him 34:22[Music] scriptorium 34:35there's a book missing there were two books here on vernantius's desk 34:40someone has taken the greek one a page is full of greek 34:50whoever you are beware miserably dominique give me my lenses 34:58oh it's too fine to read bring the light closer no no no that toss you fool don't wait 35:04wait wait hold the flame just close enough there 35:10do you see the words appear from nowhere it's bewitched i tricked with lemon 35:17juice i believe but they're not words runes hmm a series of necromantic signs 35:24some zodiacal alphabet what do they mean we'll study it later 35:32our man is there after him 35:40no one there was a fool that i had quick 35:47back to the desk i knew it 35:54he threw a book to distract us so he could take the page shame 36:00i've got it here [Laughter] you are a genius adjourned 36:08if i left my lenses now they're stolen i'll find him now he's gone 36:15however he was by some door we don't know how 36:21come now up to the mysterious library 36:29fifty years have passed yet still i see perfectly the strange world of that labyrinth 36:36the first room we entered had seven sides and a strong odor of stagnation 36:42four of the walls had an opening between huge laden bookcases 36:48above one passage there was a scroll 36:53yazoo christie you laid with the light 37:04this room's called aquas albus and beyond that 37:18each room had at least one sometimes three doors leading into more 37:23rooms quadrangular rooms each with one window 37:29arranged around a single windowless hectare room 37:34elementary we must be in the east tower okay remember this route title perhaps 37:42we can make a map but the builders of the library were shrewder than we thought 37:47the order of the rooms became more confused there were more scrolls on every door 37:53all verses from the apocalypse of saint john what was the name of the first room 38:01apocalypse's yazoo christie let's try and find it again 38:08a devil [Laughter] 38:13ingenious a mirror it's your own image adzo enlarged and distorted 38:19lord jesus would this be the visions monks have had here perhaps 38:26to judge by the angles of the walls i'd say within the pentagon of another tower 38:32there's a light through there give me yours go see 38:40it's not a lamp some kind of incense 38:46and an open book 38:53[Music] how do you feel this morning 38:58i don't know what happened you inhaled smoke of some 39:04vision-inducing herb the book there was a picture of a beast 39:10a dragon it came to life circled my head oh i've had nightmares all night 39:18look bruises on my legs i had to get you away from the smoke but 39:23i couldn't carry you all the way down the stairs you dragged me it's only a few bruises 39:29herbs and mirrors at least we've solved the mystery of the visions 39:34now without my lenses it'll be difficult to read finances code but i'll try you make a map of the library now that 39:40we've seen it its mathematics should be deducible perhaps to you that place is 39:46changing here comes the abbott william i've received the letter from avignon 39:52the pope's envoy will be bernard queen oh the scourge of the 39:58heretics why did john choose him to the pope the franciscan position on 40:05the poverty of christ is the same as the heretics he will try to taint us michael 40:10in particular with the stain of fanaticism a bit 40:16not now beno berengar has disappeared lord jesus protect us all 40:23find him man search everywhere you too novice master go ajo 40:32if by tomorrow we have not discovered the person guilty of two perhaps now three crimes 40:38i will be forced to turn control of this abbey over to bernard gui what is detaining your investigation uh 40:45but you know the truth is not to be found in two days especially with a little power you grant me 40:51may i enter the library i see no connection between the murders and the library 40:56and delma was an illuminator vernantius a translator beringer heaven protect him 41:02assistant librarian all the monks have something to do with the library as they have with the church why not investigate 41:09the church then two days brother william 41:20try this capsular the metal while it's warm can be molded around the shape of your nose 41:28well it fits very well but this glass won't do there's an emerald tinge to it 41:33i don't want parchments to appear like meadows pure translucence is difficult to achieve these days 41:41what do you know of brother salvatore's history before fighting asylum here mad 41:46salvatore he and the seller are remijo so i've heard wand of the world 41:52getting mixed up along the way with now do wells and thieves they're simple souls 41:57saint francis himself believed that the illiterate and the poor often speak with the mouth of the lord but they traveled 42:03with dulcineans it was a brother of yours the franciscan 42:08ubertino who persuaded the abbott to grant them sanctuary here this monastery truly is a microcosm of 42:14the world oh that glass looks brighter let's pray that i don't have to inspect 42:19the blood of beringer with blood no at the third trumpet death comes by 42:25water it's the best i can do 42:38every internal room has five doors 42:44and five rooms for each tower with so many looking for berengar 42:51my time was better spent trying to draw a map of the library i was keen to show william that i too 42:58could use my mind it seemed an impossible task at first but eventually the numbers began to fall 43:05into place and a shape formed on the page in front of me 43:14that's it it must be 43:2056 rooms four heptagonal 52 quadrilateral 43:2722 looking to the outside 16 interior 43:34seems to work having labored most of the day and after my exertions the night before 43:42i went in search of food before hoping to sleep 43:49the truth is indivisible it shines undiminished by our shame i have resolved to confess all that 43:56happened in those days said michael archangel protect me the truth is i will never forget a 44:02single detail of my sin of that evening 44:08who's that i cannot see you who disappeared into the gloom of the kitchens 44:14but i do remember perfectly the scent of heather myrtle and wild rosemary 44:19maturing into monastic beer spices that intoxicated my mind 44:26who are you blessed virgin assist me i had no experience then and god be thanked none 44:32since of creatures of that sex i cannot say what her age might have been but she was young and frightened 44:40clutching to her breast a package please don't be afraid i am a friend 44:47oh you are young [Music] 44:55her fingers grazed my cheek i felt in a kind of delirium unable to send sin in my heart 45:02could there truly be a difference between the ecstasy of the saints and my feelings at that moment 45:07she was black and comely like the virgin in the song of songs her eyes were clear 45:13as the pools of heshbon hard fare my love 45:18my lips are like a thread of scarlet thy neck is like the tower of david 45:25she rose before me like the dawn beautiful as the moon and as she did so she threw the package 45:31she held into a corner 45:41she undid the string that closed the simple tunic over her bosom slipped the dress from her body and stood before me 45:48as eve must have appeared to adam 45:58i found myself free of my novice's habit without no shame come to her and boner 46:06thou have ravished my heart my sister that simple village girl lavished 46:11indescribable sweetness upon 46:18anzo what sins have you been committing stealing from the kitchens 46:24worse much worse father confess me 46:31i have sinned the worst of all sins murder despair the sin of the flesh 46:38with a with a woman a woman here 46:43in the abbey her demon sent to befall me 46:48she appeared in the form of an angel a queen a peasant girl from the village 46:54their smears extraordinary 47:00against the commandment and your duty as a novice of course you must not do it again 47:06but it's not so monstrous that you attempted a monk to have at least once in his life experience of carnal passion may 47:13understand better the sinners he will later cancel make your confession he acquitted 47:20who was this who girl she eating 47:25there was a man but i didn't see who she had a parcel she threw it 47:32this a heart the heart of a man 47:38a sign of death and so what man could have such a swollen heart it's an ox 47:47so he was old and ugly how do you know the girl didn't go with 47:53him for love but for a pack of scraps a harlot a poor peasant girl probably the smaller brothers to feed 47:59now she found you young and handsome and gave you gratis what from others she demands 48:04awful the monk must have dealings with the village he must know how to get people in and 48:11out of the abbey salvatore um 48:17our remedy the seller both suspected dulcineans 48:25master what were you doing down here so early i couldn't sleep uh so i decided to make my own search 48:32for our missing brother berninger nicholas's apocalyptic interpretation demands that any new death would involve 48:38drowning there's water here in the kitchens and the balinery where i was headed next come along 48:45murder is not the crime committed here but surely the monks would have checked all the baths i watched them their 48:51search was hardly thorough 48:58not this one 49:07[Music] no here at joe 49:27there's no doubt face swollen belly taught he died by drowning yeah but was he 49:34drowned by another's hand severinus no signs of violence no bruising it's as if berninker had poured the 49:41water and lain in it of his own free will yesterday morning or before when ads when i was perhaps the last to 49:47see him i think brother berengar may have taken a book from us 49:53in the scriptorium yesterday morning you think he must have gone somewhere else after seeing us there was no sign of the book 49:59in the boundary no well not it severinus good beringus illness made him lose 50:05consciousness in the bath it's possible that's curious what the other day i 50:13observed that the fingers on vanentius's hands were blackened attached no importance to it but look 50:19bearing us too and some kind of stain i assumed venantius had handled links in 50:25the scriptorium or he had held something long and thin there are tracers and benign's left hand 50:32too thumb and forefinger there are many substances that leave traces of this sort gold dust 50:38adelma was an illuminator the first death of course i'm afraid i didn't examine the fingers on that occasion 50:46as i told you before many of these herbs compounded could be used for lethal beverages and ointments belladonna and 50:54hemlock you know a lot about poison severinus any that would leave a mark on the 50:59fingers i know what a herbalist needs to know i know none of these 51:04may i borrow your spatula of course the town's black too 51:10so beringer and presumably venantius grass something 51:15then ingested it a voluntary act but we mustn't dismiss any hypothesis severinus 51:23if someone who knows poisons as you do had broken in here but who well has anyone asked you questions 51:28about your herbs no wait years ago i was given a file by a 51:34brother who had traveled in distant lands he didn't know what it contained only that it was highly poisonous 51:42do you know its effects he told me that even the tiniest amount caused great weariness a slow paralysis and finally 51:48death where is it now i no longer have it there was a great storm 10 10 years ago 51:54it wrought havoc here everything broken scattered spilled i cleaned thoroughly especially when i 52:01realized that file was missing stolen i was surprised that the hurricane had caused quite so much damage whom did you 52:09tell about this deadly substance the other naturally to obtain his permission to keep it 52:14a few others in the scriptorium when i was trying to identify it who malachi 52:22i told beringa too welcome the location of consistent 52:29michael's here 52:41i watched my master from the cloisters greeting old friends from his order ubertino the hugh of newcastle and 52:49michael of tizena himself minister general of the franciscans the man whose mission was at the heart of the council 52:55of war with the pope's envoy if and when you do meet pope john 53:01remember michael never trust his oaths the man's unknown son of a cobbler 53:07christ was the son of a carpenter that's not the point john's a god if a priest commits carnal sin with a 53:13nun he wants him only to be absolved by paying 60 gold pieces a hundred if with a child or an animal 53:25we have a little time ago while my brothers ready themselves are bernard gui you tried the map 53:31and succeeded i think well your drawing skills 53:38could be improved however it seems a reasonably accurate depiction we'll find out on our next visit 53:44i too have been busy last night while you were otherwise engaged venantius is code 53:52my greek is rather scanty but i've deduced something from his cryptograms 53:58the terrible poison that gives purification you use humble persons base and ugly 54:05from the villages take pleasure from their defect they rape virgins and lie with 54:11a different truth the venerable figs 54:18the ravings of a madman they meant something to venantius and are connected to his death and possibly that of adelmo 54:24and beringer now venantius took the notes from some other book one he had stolen from the 54:30library's phoenix afrikay and from these ramblings will you be 54:35able to discover what book that is i have the feeling that i've heard or read some of these words before something 54:42there's been talk of in the last few days and i can't recall what its books speak of books they talk 54:48amongst themselves a bell that grave can only handle the 54:55arrival of signori i had no wish to meet the fearsome 55:02bernard at once and found myself drawn to the kitchens my flesh had forgotten the pleasure of 55:09the girl but my soul had not forgotten her face i saw her everywhere in the immense 55:16goodness of creation and i felt the world to be notable 55:27shut up salvatore was it you was a girl last night evil females 55:34they take any um who was with the damn you your remijo 55:42the inquisition has arrived salvatore time to speak the truth for me 55:48he enjoyed her kane and cambio for food you and ramit you 55:54you always dolcino together notice that name what is that 56:00black ghetto what are you doing with it 56:05a spell simple succeed make every farm want you no 56:12even fail pluck salvatori black cat's eyes out put them in shell 56:18of eggs a pet diablo be born in each shell when the woman see them 56:26she do every kind of love not her plenty of fun 56:34i find one more 56:48william you've not met father bernard i have long wanted to meet the man i 56:54thank for many important decisions in my life like abandoning the holy office of inquisitor 57:00there was a time abbot when william of baskerville was closer to me in fighting the forces of evil and he will be again 57:07but then i went over to as you might call it the other side i'm informed that we have not one 57:13but two vital missions to perform here so you brought our friend up today how could i not i want every entrance and 57:20exit to the abbey watch day and night so far you have been unsuccessful in 57:25discovering the culprits let us pray the lord will guide my hand more surely than he has yours william of 57:32baskerville and culprits you know already there's more than one the perciferous stink of the devil is 57:37everywhere in this abbey even a franciscan like you must smell it 57:43brother william 57:55in the name of the rose by umberto echo dramatized by chris dolan 58:01william of baskerville was played by david heyman old adso by andrew sax 58:07young adso nick underwood the abbot crawford logan 58:12nicholas sean scanlon jorge jim norton bernard gui christian rodska 58:19severinus brian pettifer malachi neil mckinnon 58:24salvatore mark mcdonnell beringer cara kelly 58:30benno john quilty adelmo john paul hurley and 58:36simon tate other parts were played by members of the cast the director was bruce young
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