Dette anføres i den engelske og italienske artikel og gentages mange steder på internettet. Det siges dog et sted at Eco ikke direkte har udpeget stedet, men at det for mange "i branchen" var oplagt: "... Although Umberto Eco (Name of the Rose) did not mention Bobbio by name, it was obvious to many of us in the field, that his monastic abbey was modelled on Bobbio, which was closed down in the 19th century. The clues were even carried into the film they made – just look carefully at the library scenes. Its great library and archive was split between the Vatican Secret Archives and some archives in northern Italy such as Padua and Milan. ..." – http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander/fidelma.htmArkiveret 27. juni 2010 hos Wayback Machine
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Dette anføres i den engelske og italienske artikel og gentages mange steder på internettet. Det siges dog et sted at Eco ikke direkte har udpeget stedet, men at det for mange "i branchen" var oplagt: "... Although Umberto Eco (Name of the Rose) did not mention Bobbio by name, it was obvious to many of us in the field, that his monastic abbey was modelled on Bobbio, which was closed down in the 19th century. The clues were even carried into the film they made – just look carefully at the library scenes. Its great library and archive was split between the Vatican Secret Archives and some archives in northern Italy such as Padua and Milan. ..." – http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander/fidelma.htmArkiveret 27. juni 2010 hos Wayback Machine