The Name of the Rose

About The Name of the Rose

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy.

Rai 1's The Name of the Rose is a mystery, war, and politics series. It reached one season of 8 episodes from March 2019.

John Turturro stars as William of Baskerville, Rupert Everett as Bernardo Gui, Damian Hardung as Adso of Melk, and Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Remigio of Varagine. The series began as a novel.

Members will find master disciple relationship, monk, religious fundamentalism, and 14th century in it.

Sherlock, Big Little Lies, and And Then There Were None make useful companions to The Name of the Rose, all filed under murder mystery. It scores 7.0 out of 10 from 123 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.