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    e. Umberto Eco [a] OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval ...

    • The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco.
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    • The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco.
  2. Umberto Eco Author Umberto Eco was born on January 5, 1932 in the city of Alessandria in Piedmont, located in Northern Italy, and it was here that he went to high school. He worked as a philosopher, university professor, literary critic, and semiotician.

  3. Apr 11, 2024 · Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932, Alessandria, Italy—died February 19, 2016, Milan) was an Italian literary critic, novelist, and semiotician (student of signs and symbols) best known for his novel Il nome della rosa (1980; The Name of the Rose ). After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Turin (1954), Eco worked as a cultural editor ...

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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.
  4. Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian novelist, medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, and literary critic. He is the author of several bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before, and Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities ...

  5. Jan 1, 2001 · (Book 293 from 1001 books) - Il Nome Della Rosa = The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose 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, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary ...

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