The Name of the Rose
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The Name of the Rose

by

Umberto Eco
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Remigio of Varagine Character Analysis

Remigio is the abbey’s cellarer, a former Franciscan who joined the Benedictines to escape religious persecution. Remigio admits that he was the first to find Venantius’s dead body in the abbey’s kitchen, but wasn’t sure what to do with it that wouldn’t incriminate himself, so decided to leave it until the morning. When he returned, the corpse was gone. He confesses to William that he was wandering the abbey so late at night because he trades food from the abbey’s cellars in exchange for sex with village girls, using Salvatore of Montferrat as an intermediary, which is why Adso encounters the girl from the village in the kitchen. Since he was in the infirmary around the time that Severinus was murdered, Remigio is arrested by Bernard Gui, who accuses him of heresy. Under the pressure of the interrogation and threat of torture, Remigio admits that he followed Fra Dolcino and concealed heretical letters and papers, and—rediscovering the conviction, faith, and defiance that had once animated him—he also confesses (falsely) that he and Salvatore killed Severinus and the other monks.

Remigio of Varagine Quotes in The Name of the Rose

The The Name of the Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Remigio of Varagine or refer to Remigio of Varagine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Interpretation of Signs Theme Icon
).
First Day Quotes

“My good Adso,” my master said, “during our whole journey I have been teaching you to recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book.”

Related Characters: William of Baskerville (speaker), Adso of Melk, Remigio of Varagine
The Interpretation of Signs Theme Icon
Page Number: 26
Explanation and Analysis:
Fifth Day Quotes

What Bernard wanted was clear. Without the slightest interest in knowing who had killed the other monks, he wanted only to show that Remigio somehow shared the ideas propounded by the Emperor's theologians. And once he had shown the connection between those ideas […] and had shown that one man in that abbey subscribed to all those heresies and had been the author of many crimes, he would thus have dealt a truly mortal blow to his adversaries.

Related Characters: Adso of Melk (speaker), Remigio of Varagine, Fra Dolcino, Bernard Gui
Religion and Politics Theme Icon
Page Number: 407
Explanation and Analysis:
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Remigio of Varagine Quotes in The Name of the Rose

The The Name of the Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Remigio of Varagine or refer to Remigio of Varagine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Interpretation of Signs Theme Icon
).
First Day Quotes

“My good Adso,” my master said, “during our whole journey I have been teaching you to recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book.”

Related Characters: William of Baskerville (speaker), Adso of Melk, Remigio of Varagine
The Interpretation of Signs Theme Icon
Page Number: 26
Explanation and Analysis:
Fifth Day Quotes

What Bernard wanted was clear. Without the slightest interest in knowing who had killed the other monks, he wanted only to show that Remigio somehow shared the ideas propounded by the Emperor's theologians. And once he had shown the connection between those ideas […] and had shown that one man in that abbey subscribed to all those heresies and had been the author of many crimes, he would thus have dealt a truly mortal blow to his adversaries.

Related Characters: Adso of Melk (speaker), Remigio of Varagine, Fra Dolcino, Bernard Gui
Religion and Politics Theme Icon
Page Number: 407
Explanation and Analysis:
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