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To its success, you need look no further than the structure of the storyĪnd the name of the protagonist, William of Baskerville. But if you want to understand the real key Of the Rose appears, at first glance, to be one of the more unlikelyīestsellers of all time. With large chunks of text in Latin and numerous discussions of 14thĬentury religious controversies and political squabbles, Umberto Eco's
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