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.
Problem:This author wrote about a character who destroys a ship on which Ippolito Nievo is traveling to destroy some documents in his novel centering on Simone Simonini. He also wrote a novel in which an editor sorts through the papers of a man named Roberto della Griva who is shipwrecked near the International Date Line. This author of The Prague Cemetery and The Island of the Day Before wrote a novel in which Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon develop the plan and another in which the murder of Adelmo of Otranto is investigated by Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville. For 10 points, name this author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose.
Solution:
Literature