Umberto Eco Quote

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

Name of the Rose (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995) - ISBN: 9780151002139