Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was an Italian essayist, novelist and semiologist. Emeritus professor at the University of Bologna, eclectic intellectual and eminent medievalist, he has written a great many essays on linguistics, mass communication and philosophy. But it is his novels, beginning with The Name of the Rose, that have made him a household name. Eco wrote a bimonthly column column for L'Espresso and regularly contributed to La Repubblica and other major European dailies.
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