The Name of the Rose (Italian: Il nome della rosa) is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries created and directed by Giacomo Battiato for RAI.

The Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his young novice Adso of Melk, reach an isolated Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy to participate in a dispute over the role of poverty in the Church.

After having taken his vows as Benedictine novice, he meets William of Baskerville, a famous English Franciscan friar, cultured and intelligent, and decides to follow him in his spiritual journey.

William is on his way to an isolated and remote Benedictine abbey of Cluniac rule, located on the top of a mountain in the Alps of northern Italy, famous for its extraordinary library which houses manuscripts of inestimable value.

The traces of the murderer lead straight to the library in the great tower, a labyrinth forbidden to anyone except the librarian Malachi of Hildesheim and his assistant Berengar of Arundel.

Meanwhile, Dominican inquisitor Bernard Gui, on his way to the abbey with his armed escort, carries out a massacre in Pietranera, a village considered a refuge for Dulcinian heretics, exterminating Anna's family.

In another room there is an ingenious system of rotated reeds: when the wind whipped them, it cause whispers and sinister laments to keep unwanted monks away, making them believe that the library is haunted by spirits.

Adso, increasingly interested in the story of the Dulcinians, asks the blind monk Jorge of Burgos, an expert on the monastery's secrets, for explanations.

Meanwhile, the inquisitor Bernard Gui, on his way to the abbey, pauses at an abandoned chapel in the woods, recalling how at the time of the capture of Dolcino and Margherita, he had tried to fornicate with her, trying to make her abjure.

Dolcino's secret daughter, Anna, has chased him to carry out her revenge, and she shoots an arrow at Bernard, missing him; she engages in a fight against the guards and is wounded but manages to run away.

While Anna, losing a lot of blood, seeks shelter in the woods where she cannot be chased by the guards of the inquisition, Salvatore recalls his past as a court jester: he was reduced to a pet by his masters, when suddenly one day the Dulcinians broke in and he was freed by Remigio, who had joined them.

That same evening, the abbot gives a special dinner for the arrivals, while Salvatore and Remigio appear more and more nervous about the presence of the inquisitor, and they plan to suddenly abandon the abbey.

The following day Bernard Gui goes to Salvatore to extort precious information about the past of Friar Remigio and about the demonic nature of the girl, whom he considers a witch for having participated in the ritual of the black cat.

Bernard Gui cannot explain Malachi's death, since he believed he had caught the murderer, but he is too interested in returning to Avignon to hand over the prisoners to the Pope.

The following day he talks with Bernard, threatening him to report him to the Pope for having committed murder during the execution of Dolcino and Margherita, since he himself had replaced the secular arm to start the stake, which was forbidden.

Reluctantly, Bernard is made to promise to free the Occitan girl, but he secretly orders the guards to burn her the same night as he leaves for Avignon with the two heretical prisoners.

The miniseries was shot in Italy and in particular in Abruzzo: at the gorges of Fara San Martino, in Roccamorice, at the hermitage of Santo Spirito a Majella and at the castle of Roccascalegna.