Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: In one work by this author, a character disguised as Abbe Dalla Piccola strangles Diana Vaughan to death after impregnating her at a Satanist orgy. In another of his novels, a prostitute is accused of witchcraft by Bernard Gui. This author who wrote about the anti-semitic forger Captain Simonelli also included the allegedly immortal Count Aglee in another novel. Another character of this author deduces the whereabouts of a horse named Brunellus and solves a mystery involving a lost book on comedy by Aristotle. In one novel by this author of (*) The Prague Cemetery, random sentences connected by the computer Abulafia are constructed into The Plan by Belbo and Casaubon. For 10 points, name this author who depicted the creators of a fictional conspiracy theory in Foucault's Pendulum and wrote about Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville in his Name of the Rose.
A:
Literature