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Bernard is a Dominican who works for the Inquisition—the legal court used by the church to prosecute heresy. He is a staunch supporter of the pope and hates the Spiritualists, and is thus hostile to Ubertino and Michael and suspicious of William. He is cold, ruthless (he has Salvatore tortured), and less interested in finding out the truth than in using the Inquisition to further his political and ideological agenda. By accusing Remigio and Salvatore of the murders, he is able to use the mysterious and bloody events at the abbey to undermine the Emperor’s supporters.
Bernard Gui Quotes in The Name of the Rose
The The Name of the Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Bernard Gui or refer to Bernard Gui . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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What Bernard wanted was clear. Without the slightest interest in knowing who had killed the other monks, he wanted only to show that Remigio somehow shared the ideas propounded by the Emperor's theologians. And once he had shown the connection between those ideas […] and had shown that one man in that abbey subscribed to all those heresies and had been the author of many crimes, he would thus have dealt a truly mortal blow to his adversaries.
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Bernard Gui Quotes in The Name of the Rose
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Fifth Day
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What Bernard wanted was clear. Without the slightest interest in knowing who had killed the other monks, he wanted only to show that Remigio somehow shared the ideas propounded by the Emperor's theologians. And once he had shown the connection between those ideas […] and had shown that one man in that abbey subscribed to all those heresies and had been the author of many crimes, he would thus have dealt a truly mortal blow to his adversaries.
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