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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.

Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Born 5 January 1932
Died 19 February 2016

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  • Cover of: Semiotic Landscape. Panorama Sémiotique: Proceedings of the First Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Milan June 1974 / Actes du Premier Congrès de l'association Internationale de Sémiotique, Milan Juin 1974

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Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Born 5 January 1932
Died 19 February 2016

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