I loved The Name of The Rose. The only thing I never worked out, I'm
embarrassed to say, was what the title, and the related Latin tag at the
end, mean.
I had no idea saints had that effect. Otherwise I would have spent my youth
taking girls to cathedrals.
Best wishes
Matthew
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Date: 19 August 2000 00:35
Subject: Re: The Name of the Rose and St Thomas Aquinas
>I am pretty sure many of you have read Il Nome della Rosa, Umberto Eco's
>cultural development from his early thesis on the aesthetics of St Thomas
>Aquinas,
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>Recall the passage of the reliquary, with fragments of the bones of St
>"Something"
>at the age of 34 and, kept in another another reliquary box, the fragments
>of the same Saint
>at the age of 57.
>Both set of fragments found in the two (different ?) place of his
>martyrdom.
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>A digression:
>Viewing the relics of a Saint always induces me
>in a trance-like state; I feel like being seized by an
>overwhelming loss of will.
>Once, after a very decent and interesting three-days International congress
>on the Literature of Voyage in Southern Italy,
>we all went to visit the local Cathedral, in Ravello, where the relics of
a
>Saint (Saint Bartholomew's , if I remember well)
>were kept - (yes, now I recall...St Bartholomew's blood yellowish and
>clotted platelets where immaculately kept in sealed container made of gold
>and glass) . Under the effect of that spell, while standing in the darkened
>chapel in front of the reliquary, among the crowding group of colleagues -
I
>grasped the hand of one of the French academic (who had had a paper on
>Wagner's Parsiphal in Ravello) and held it tightly against my stomach for
>the entire 3 minutes visit of the Holy site, out of which , the French
>Professor's eyes out were of the orbits.....Later on, solicited by his
>pressuring courtship, I resorted to the excuse of a post-hypnotic
amnesia,
>saying that I was completely forgetful of what had taken place in the
trance
>under the effect of St Bartholomew's relics.
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