... French, and German, not to mention the peculiar polyglot speech of one of the characters. As he remarks, he gives his audience, "Latin, practically no women, [and] lots of theology," partially rewarding their attention by also providing "gallons of blood in Grand Guignol style" (Eco, 1983). The late-fourteenth-century manuscript in The Name of the Rose is a model of simple and ... straightforward organization. Its author, the elderly monk Adso, divides his text into seven parts, spanning seven days; each part or day is further ordered ... systems like numerology, iconography, mathemati...

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