In a novel by this author, a German Jesuit named Gaspar fails to teach the protagonist to swim after the shipwreck of the Daphne. This author created a character who divides the world into "cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics." One of this author's protagonists is marooned on an island that he thinks is on the International Date Line. In a novel by this author, several characters examine "telluric currents" using the computer Abulafia. A character created by this author deduces that a missing horse is called Brunellus and examines the lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics. This author of The Island of the Day Before wrote a novel in which Adelmo's death prompts William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk to investigate a monastery. For 10 points, name this Italian author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose. ■END■
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