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The Library Tower (Name of the Rose)
The Library Tower (Name of the Rose)
Italian Alps, Umberto Eco
1980
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A labyrinthine medieval tower where monks guard forbidden knowledge, and a lost volume of Aristotle is worth killing for.

Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' (1980) centers on a Benedictine abbey whose library tower is designed as an unsolvable maze. The forbidden book at the heart of the mystery is the lost second volume of Aristotle's 'Poetics,' on comedy.