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Characters

Primary characters

• William of Baskerville — main protagonist, a Franciscan friar
• Adso of Melk — narrator, novice accompanying William

At the monastery

• Abo of Fossanova — the abbot of the Benedictine monastery
• Ubertino of Casale — Franciscan friar in exile, friend of William
• Severinus of Sankt Wendel — herbalist
• Malachi of Hildesheim — librarian
• Berengar of Arundel — assistant librarian, in love with Adelmo, the third to die
• Adelmo of Otranto — illuminator, novice, the first to die
• Venantius of Salvemec — translator of manuscripts, the second to die
• Benno of Uppsala — student of rhetoric
• Alinardo of Grottaferrata — eldest monk
• Jorge of Burgos — elderly blind monk
• Remigio of Varagine — cellarer
• Salvatore of Montferrat — monk, associate of Remigio
• Nicholas of Morimondo — glazier
• Aymaro of Alessandria — gossipy, sneering monk
• Pacificus of Tivoli
• Waldo of Hereford
• Magnus of Iona
• Patrick of Clonmacnois
• Rabano of Toledo

Outsiders 

• Michael of Cesena — leader of Spiritual Franciscans
• Bernard Gui — inquisitor
• Bertrand del Poggetto — Cardinal and leader of the Papal legation
• Peasant girl from the village below the monastery