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Umberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
Umberto Eco, Italian literary critic and semiotician best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, a murder mystery set in a 14th-century Italian monastery but, in essence, a questioning of ‘truth’ from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives.
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- February 19, 2016
- January 5, 1932
- The Name of the Rose.
- Foucault’s Pendulum.
- History of Beauty by Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen.
- The Prague Cemetery.
Umberto Eco ( /umˈbɛrto ˈɛːko/ ), né le 5 janvier 1932 à Alexandrie dans le Piémont et mort le 19 février 2016 à Milan, est un universitaire, érudit et écrivain italien.
- 19 février 2016 (à 84 ans)Milan ( Italie)
- Italien
- 5 janvier 1932Alexandrie ( Italie)
Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary critic, semiotician and philosopher. He wrote novels such as The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, and The Prague Cemetery, as well as many essays on semiotics, literature and culture.
The Name of the Rose (Italian: Il nome della rosa [il ˈnoːme della ˈrɔːza]) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.
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Feb 20, 2016 · Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday at...
