The Name of the Rose

0 Hi Miche! I’m glad to find this thread. I thought about the title’s riddle of “Il nomo di rosa” for a long time too. And now, having come to a conclusion, I’m sure there isn’t any specific meaning in its title. 02br
00I want to quote Eco himself: “… the rose as a symbolic figure is so meaningful that it’s got hardly any meaning… The title ought to confuse thoughts, not to help

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00Well, I agree with this. I've made quite may interpretations of the title and probably they are all correct (according to Eco). I didn't expect from Eco to give a direct name to his book. However, being an Aries, I'm confu

Miche"What's in a name"

Well, since you mentioned that, i just felt the need to conjure a very famous scene from Romeo and Juliet.. "What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet".
for those who don't know, this is part oh Juliet's speech at the balcony scene.

I'm sorry, i haven't read the book, but the quote

Hi, Wildros,

That quote from Romeo & Juliet was the one that confused me a lot when I tried to related it to Umberto Eco's Rose. I think that what Shakespeare is saying is just the opposite to what Eco is saying about the rose. Shakespear focuses on the object, saying that whatever you call it, it's the same object. While Eco focuses on the name as an eternal entity, which outlives the ob

I assumed that the "name of the rose" was in reference to the young woman Adso encountered at the abbey...whose name he never knew.

I thought the term 'Rose' was used for the catholic church, with it's petals spreading through the land. So the title might mean that the corruption, killing, power brokering of the clergy that Eco describes in the book was all done 'in the name of the Church'. Sounds good anyway...

Yes, it does sound good. I didn't know the rose was a symbol of the Catholic Church... Thanks for the suggestions!

object-concept-word line - It was the first principle of one medieval philosophical school called Nominalism opposed to the medieval realism. It expains nothing, but may it be interesting for you?

HI! The latter replay was mine as well as the first.

The last line of the novel (stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus) roughly translated means "the ancient rose continues to exist thru its name, yet its name is all that remains to us".

Eco's own explanation in Postscript to The Name of the Rose :

" Since the publication of The Name of the Rose I have received a number of letters from readers who want to k