The famous Italian writer, cultural scholar, and essayist Umberto Eco wrote six novels: the planetary bestseller «The Name of the Rose», «Foucault's Pendulum», «The Island of the Day Before», «Baudolino», «The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana», and «Prague Cemetery». These books — engaging and complex, clear and full of mysteries — provoke a lot of debates and interpretations. The author has supplemented his artistic masterpiece «The Name of the Rose» with another fascinating masterpiece of essay writing: the clever and entertaining «Notes in the Margins of The Name of the Rose».