![]() The action then shifts to the late 1320s, when Adso was a novice of about eighteen years old, traveling Italy in the service of William of Baskerville, an English Franciscan and former inquisitor. The second prologue introduces us to Adso of Melk, a Benedictine monk who is writing this manuscript at the end of his life. ![]() He explains that the manuscript is divided into seven days, and each day into eight sections corresponding to the times of the day at which the monks prayed (matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline). Although the narrator expresses doubts about the authenticity of the text and the veracity of the incredible story it tells, he has decided nonetheless to translate and publish it in Italian. The Name of the Rose begins with a prologue by an unknown narrator, who explains how he found a transcription of a medieval manuscript containing the account of Adso of Melk, a fourteenth-century German monk. ![]()
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