As a lark, the three decide to invent a history of the occult tying a variety of phenomena to the mysterious machinations of the Order. The narrator, Casaubon, an expert on the medieval Knights Templars, and two editors working in a branch of a vanity press publishing house in Milan, are told about a purported coded message revealing a secret plan set in motion by the Knights Templars centuries ago when the society was forced underground. This complex psychological thriller chronicles the development of a literary joke that plunges its perpetrators into deadly peril. If a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco's second novel-also an intellectual blockbuster-should prove more accessible.

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