Description acceptable. An employee of this place responds “I will do nothing to harm you” after another character cryptically yells “You swear and I swear!” at him. A location in Toronto named for John P. Robarts likely inspired this place, which contains an object with the “power of a thousand scorpions.” A map of this place is marked with initials that stand for words like Aegyptus, Gallia, and Yspania. After solving a riddle by pressing the first and seventh letters of the word “quatuor,” a mirror in this place is revealed to be a door. After sneaking out of this place through the kitchen, a character has sex with a peasant girl who leaves him an ox heart. The lovers Malachi and his assistant Berengar are the only two people who can access this place and its secret room, the finis Africae. For 10 points, name this location where Jorge of Burgos eats a poisoned copy of Aristotle’s Poetics in a novel about Italian monks by Umberto Eco. ■END■
ANSWER: the library from The Name of the Rose [accept the finis Africae until read; accept Il nome della rosa in place of “The Name of the Rose”; prompt on library by asking “from what work of literature?”; prompt on the Aedificium by asking “what location within the Aedificium?”; prompt on the abbey from The Name of the Rose by asking “what location within the abbey?”]
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