The author of The Name of the Rose has passed away recently. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...author-and-philosopher-umberto-eco-dead-at-84 Insolent vaunt of Paracelsus, that he would restore the original rose or violet out of the ashes settling from its combustion… —De Quincey: Writings, XIII, 345. http://www.phalanx.in/pages/article_i005_the_rose_of_paracelsus.html