I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk. (Umberto Eco)

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

Umberto Eco

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