William of Baskerville (Italian: Guglielmo da Baskerville, pronounced [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo dа ˈbaskervil]) is a fictional Franciscan friar from the 1980 historical...
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14th on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century list. In 1327, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his assistant Adso of Melk arrive at a Benedictine...
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period, especially those of his most eminent contemporary, William Caslon. Compared to earlier designs popular in Britain, Baskerville increased the contrast...
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friar William of Baskerville, called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey. Christian Slater portrays his young apprentice, Adso of Melk,...
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Vivarelli, Nick (16 October 2017). "John Turturro to Play Monk William of Baskerville in Name of The Rose TV Adaptation". Variety. Retrieved 15 May 2024. Scott...
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John Turturro (category People of Sicilian descent)
nomination. In 2019 Turturro played William of Baskerville in a television adaptation of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. In 2022, he appeared in Matt...
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international bestseller novel of the same name by Umberto Eco. The series stars John Turturro as William of Baskerville and Rupert Everett as Bernard...
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Sean Connery filmography (redirect from Filmography of Sean Connery)
(1990); John Patrick Mason in The Rock; and Allan Quatermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). Along with his Academy Award, he won two BAFTA...
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Micah Baskerville (born 1999), American football player Steve Baskerville (born 1950), American television weather presenter William of Baskerville, a fictional...
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Robinson William of Occam served as an inspiration for the creation of William of Baskerville, the main character of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose...
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Baskerville is a typeface. Baskerville may also refer to: Ralph de Baskerville, son of Robert de Basqueville who held Eardisley Castle Howard Baskerville...
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Sherlock Holmes (redirect from Science of Deduction)
creates a Sherlock Holmes of the 1320s in the form of a Franciscan friar and main protagonist named Brother William of Baskerville, his name a clear reference...
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past!" To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: "We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though...
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F. Murray Abraham (category University of Texas at El Paso alumni)
Name of the Rose (1986), in which he played Bernardo Gui, nemesis to Sean Connery's William of Baskerville. In its DVD commentary, the director of the...
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John Baskerville (baptised 28 January 1707 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best...
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La Abadía del Crimen (redirect from The abbey of crime)
friar, William of Occam (William of Baskerville in the book) and his young novice Adso have to discover the perpetrator of a series of murders in a medieval...
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William Baskerville Hamilton (March 7, 1908 – July 17, 1972) was a historian at Duke University who focused on the history of the American South and of...
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Umberto Eco (category Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
labyrinthine library in The Name of the Rose also alludes to Borges's short story "The Library of Babel". William of Baskerville is a logical-minded Englishman...
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character, William of Baskerville, knew that Aristotle's Poetics had recently been translated directly from Greek into Latin by William of Moerbeke. "Witelo...
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2006 Richmond spree murders (category History of Richmond, Virginia)
Virginia, United States; seven people—four members of the Harvey family and three members of the Baskerville–Tucker family—were killed. The perpetrators were...
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through conversations between the main characters William of Baskerville and Adso. Donovan, Stephen. "Michael of Cesena." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 10....
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Baskerville Holmes (May 5, 1964 – March 18, 1997) was an American professional basketball player from Memphis, Tennessee, who was selected in the 1986...
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is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an...
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(Jimmy Wang Yu)) Mars (Ed Grann (Olivier Martinez)) The Name of the Rose (William of Baskerville (John Turturro)) Pacific Rim (Herc Hansen (Max Martini))...
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Alice Kyteler (category People convicted of witchcraft)
is mentioned in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose in a conversation between William of Baskerville and Abo the abbot. The feminist art piece by...
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Tuck – Robin Hood Ambrosio - The Monk William of Baskerville – The Name of the Rose Brother Cadfael – protagonist of historical mystery novels by Ellis Peters...
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Sherlock Holmes pastiches (redirect from List of Sherlock Holmes pastiches)
2005. The protagonist of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose, Friar William of Baskerville (per The Hound of the Baskervilles), and his novice Adso...
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The Baskervilles is a British-French-Canadian animated children's television series about a British family living in the most twisted theme park in the...
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Viola Osborne Baskerville (born October 29, 1951) is a Virginia lawyer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1998 to 2005...
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Historical mystery (redirect from List of fictional historical detectives)
1946). "Bits of Literary Slang". The Milwaukee Journal. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2013. Morris, William & Mary (3 June...
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