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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.
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.
Umberto Eco 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 studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's ...
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.
Interview with the late Italian novelist Umberto Eco, author behind the bestselling novel ‘The Name of the Rose’. With great warmth and humour Eco shares how he has always taken...
Feb 21, 2023 · Umberto Eco (b. 1932–d. 2016) was an Italian author and theorist whose contributions to the academic and creative zeitgeists ripple into inter- and multidisciplinary fields including, but not limited to, semiotics, linguistics, communication theory, narrative theory, politics, pop culture, history, and aesthetic theory.
Umberto Eco, (born Jan. 5, 1932, Alessandria, Italy—died Feb. 19, 2016, Milan), Italian critic and novelist. He taught in Florence, Milan, and Bologna. In The Open Work (1962), he argued for the fundamentally ambiguous nature of certain types of literature and music.
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...
Feb 20, 2016 · MILAN (AP) — Umberto Eco catapulted to global literary fame three decades ago with “The Name of the Rose,” a novel in which professorial erudition underpinned a medieval thriller that sold some 30 million copies in more than 40 languages.
