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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

Born 5 January 1932
Died 19 February 2016

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  • Cover of: Signo

    First published in 1973 10 editions in 3 languages
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  • Cover of: Turning back the clock: hot wars and media populism

    First published in 1998 10 editions in 2 languages — 4 previewable Cover of edition turningbackclock00ecou Cover of edition turningbackclock0000ecou_k1m8 Cover of edition turningbackclock0000ecou
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  • Cover of: Travels in hyper reality: essays

    First published in 1986 9 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition travelsinhyperre00ecou Cover of edition travelsinhyperre0000ecou
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  • Cover of: Six walks in the fictional woods

    First published in 1994 9 editions in 4 languages — 4 previewable Cover of edition sixpromenadesdan0000ecou_w2r4 Cover of edition sixwalksinfictio0000ecou Cover of edition isbn_5890912119
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  • Cover of: Lector in fabula. Die Mitarbeit der Interpretation in erzählenden Texten.

    First published in 1979 9 editions in 5 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition lectorfabula00ecou
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  • Cover of: A theory of semiotics

    First published in 1976 8 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition theoryofsemiotic0000ecou
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    First published in 2004 8 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 2009 8 editions in 4 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition infinityoflists0000ecou
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    First published in 1982 7 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition aestheticsofchao0000ecou_u0y1
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    First published in 1983 7 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The picture history of inventions: from plough to Polaris

    First published in 1961 7 editions in 3 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Illinois: Prentice Hall Literature

    First published in 2007 7 editions in 1 language — 7 previewable Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_h7i9 Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_o9h2 Cover of edition newjerseyprentic0000pren Cover of edition ohioprenticehall0000unse Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000staf_d0m6 Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000feld
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    First published in 2017 6 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: On Ugliness

    First published in 2007 6 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: La Definicion De Arte/the Definition of Art (Coleccion Imago Mundi)

    First published in 1968 6 editions in 2 languages
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    First published in 1999 6 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 1992 5 editions in 4 languages — 1 previewable
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Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Born 5 January 1932
Died 19 February 2016
Subjects
Semiotics, History, Philosophy, Fiction, Aesthetics, History and criticism, Art, Literature, Criticism and interpretation, Sémiotique, Communication, Eco, umberto, 1932-2016, Essays (single author), Italian fiction, Language and languages, Modern Civilization, Romans, nouvelles, Civilization, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Criticism, Exhibitions, Italian literature, Linguistics, Middle Ages, Political and social views
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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