<p>After hunting through various BoardGameGeek lists, I had the idea of looking for games set in Italy (there's actually <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/211408/boardgames-set-italy/page/9" rel="nofollow">a list</a> for that!). The game in question is <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/75165/de-vulgari-eloquentia" rel="nofollow">De Vulgari Eloquentia</a>.</p>

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<p>I trying to recall the title of a game. I remember its gameplay and mechanics rather well, however its name eludes me.</p>

<ul>
<li><p>The premise has you as monks who travel around Italy during the
medieval period, reconstructing holy books. There's a pretty detailed map drawn in the Medieval style which serves as the game board. Edit: Actually the premise is that you are monks trying to construct a common language from analyzing dialects from different part of Italy to come up with a common form of the language. </p></li>
<li><p>It uses Action Points system, when you spend 1 AP to move to one
neighboring province,  3 AP to move two. You can also use AP to
gather money. The AP tokens are big purple tokens. You can spend some
AP to unlock more AP.</p></li>
<li><p>You are supposed to go to different part of the maps to reconstruct
books from the different pieces.</p></li>
<li><p>Towards the end of the game, the Pope will die and one of the players
could become Pope depending on certain conditions.</p></li>
<li><p>Name of the game is in Latin </p></li>
</ul>

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As a videogamer, I am amazed by the game mechanic and disappointed that this question is not on Arqade.
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Which is why I love board games, because there's such an amazing variety of interesting premises.
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Name of the game where you are a monk collecting scriptures and could become pope?
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# Name of the game where you are a monk collecting scriptures and could become pope?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-21)

I trying to recall the title of a game. I remember its gameplay and mechanics rather well, however its name eludes me.

* The premise has you as monks who travel around Italy during the
  medieval period, reconstructing holy books. There's a pretty detailed map drawn in the Medieval style which serves as the game board. Edit: Actually the premise is that you are monks trying to construct a common language from analyzing dialects from different part of Italy to come up with a common form of the language.
* It uses Action Points system, when you spend 1 AP to move to one
  neighboring province, 3 AP to move two. You can also use AP to
  gather money. The AP tokens are big purple tokens. You can spend some
  AP to unlock more AP.
* You are supposed to go to different part of the maps to reconstruct
  books from the different pieces.
* Towards the end of the game, the Pope will die and one of the players
  could become Pope depending on certain conditions.
* Name of the game is in Latin

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: As a videogamer, I am amazed by the game mechanic and disappointed that this question is not on Arqade.  
> **username_0**: Which is why I love board games, because there's such an amazing variety of interesting premises.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2016-07-21. Score: 11 | Accepted answer

After hunting through various BoardGameGeek lists, I had the idea of looking for games set in Italy (there's actually [a list](https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/211408/boardgames-set-italy/page/9) for that!). The game in question is [De Vulgari Eloquentia](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/75165/de-vulgari-eloquentia).


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