We only know them by the description made by Adso, one of the main characters in the novel, the rest is lost forever). The last line of the novel, as suggested by Eco, wants to point out that from the beauty of the past, now disappeared, we hold only the name so in the novel, the lost "rose" can be seen as Aristotle's “book on comedy “(now forever lost) or the exquisite library of the novel now destroyed. A part of the project will be devoted to the discovery of the meaning of the names (meaning of personal names, toponymy, etc,), and another part will deal with the novel itself ( medieval world, books, meaning of the last sentence of the novel: "Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus", whose rough meaning is: "Of the rose of the past, we have only its name"). Starting from the title of the novel, “the Name of the Rose”, we have decided to create activities which make use of associations referred to the following words: name, rose, mystery book. Our students will have to discover that, throughout the centuries, the “rose” has always been used as a symbolic element and it has had different meanings in different fields: culture, tradition, history and religion. The title of the novel, “ the Name of the Rose ", by Umberto Eco, an Italian writer, is the inspiration for the activities of our project.
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