![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the 1950s Professor Eco has written on a variety of topics, including medieval aesthetics, Saint Thomas Aquinas and James Joyce. Umberto Eco, is a professor at the University of Bologna, where he was an expert in semiotics – the study of signs. But it is also a murder mystery with intriguing characters and a fascinating setting. On the surface, this book was an unlikely candidate to become an international bestseller – a book by an Italian professor, it has long digressions into medieval theology and references to a work by Aristotle. With these lines, Umberto Eco began his novel The Name of the Rose, which has gone on to sell fifty million copies. But we see now through a glass darkly, and the truth, before it is revealed to all, face to face, we see in fragments (alas, how illegible) in the error of the world, so we must spell out its faithful signals even when they seem obscure to us and as if amalgamated with a will wholly bent on evil. This was beginning with God and the duty of every faithful monk would be to repeat every day with chanting humility the on never-changing event whose incontrovertible truth can be asserted. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ![]() First Published in 1980, first English translation in 1983 ![]()
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