Overview
Umberto Eco
Known For
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
A walk through the immense private library of Italian writer...
Andate a lavorare
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
This short film tells the story of the most important...
Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away...
Life Is Bearable at Times...
Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.
La rosa dei nomi
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the...
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Umberto Eco OMRI (Italian: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛːko]; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is best known internationally 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, was a best-seller. Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays. He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino, 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.