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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.

Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino,[3] president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

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Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)

Born 5 January 1932
Died 19 February 2016

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  • Cover of: The Name of the Rose (including author's postscript)

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  • Cover of: Foucault's pendulum

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  • Cover of: The island of the day before

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  • Cover of: Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana: Illustrated Novel

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  • Cover of: Prague Cemetery

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  • Cover of: How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

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  • Cover of: Número Cero / Numero Zero

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  • Cover of: The open work

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  • Cover of: How to write a thesis

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  • Cover of: La structure absente: Introduction à la recherche sémiotique

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  • Cover of: Apocalypse postponed

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  • Cover of: Kant and the platypus: essays on language and cognition

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  • Cover of: Five moral pieces

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  • Cover of: Art and beauty in the Middle Ages

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  • Cover of: Semiotics and the philosophy of language

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  • Cover of: Interpretation and overinterpretation

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  • Cover of: Misreadings

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  • Cover of: The Limits of Interpretation

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  • Cover of: Postscript to The name of the rose

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Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)

Born 5 January 1932
Died 19 February 2016

Subjects

Semiotics, History, Philosophy, Fiction, Aesthetics, History and criticism, Art, Literature, Criticism and interpretation, Sémiotique, Civilization, Communication, Eco, umberto, 1932-2016, Essays (single author), Italian fiction, Language and languages, Modern Civilization, Romans, nouvelles, Congresses, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Criticism, Exhibitions, Interviews, Italian literature, Linguistics

Places

Italy, Europe, United States, Italia, Mars (Planet), Oceania, Outer space, Alessandria (Italy : Province), Brasil, China, Espacio exterior, Greece, Indonesia, Italie, La bahia, Milan, Milan (Italie), Milán, Pacifique Sud, Prague, Rome, South Pacific Ocean

People

Umberto Eco, James Joyce (1882-1941), Eugenio Carmi (1920-), Georges Didi-Huberman, Marc Augé, Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274), Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873), Arthur Conan Doyle Sir (1859-1930), Beatus Saint, Presbyter of Liebana (d. 798), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), C. K., Carlo Maria Martini (1927-), Carolina Invernizio (1860-1916), Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), De Angelis, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Enrico Baj (1924-), Enrico Baj (1924-2003), Francesca Pansa, Frederick I Holy Roman Emperor (approximately 1123-1190), Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855), Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), I. A. & Ogden, Ian Fleming (1908-1964)

Time

20th century, 1970-, 476-1400, Middle Ages, 600-1500, 1945-, 19th century, 1950-, 21st century, 1492-1648, 16th century, 17th century, 1894-1964, 18th century, 1923, 1990-, 1990- ..., 1995-2005, 2001- ..., 2001-...., 21e s. (début), 21e siècle, Edad Media, 600-1500, Fourth, 1202-1204, Geschichte, Siglo XX

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  • Умберто Эко
  • Umberto Eco (Italia)
  • Eco Umberto
  • UMBERTO ECO
  • Umberto (Italia) Eco
  • Umberto (Coord.) Eco
  • Eco, Umberto

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