Michel Foucault, given the author's friendship with him, but Eco "specifically rejects any intentional reference to Michel Foucault"--this being regarded as another subtle literary joke.

Plot summary

The book opens with a man named Casaubon hiding in the Musée des Arts et Métiers after closing. He believes that a secret society has kidnapped his friend Jacopo Belbo and is now after him, and that they will soon convene in

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