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Umberto Eco
AuthorBooks · Second hand1932-2016
Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, semiotician and philosopher, one of the great European intellectuals of the 20th century. The Name of the Rose blended medieval mystery and cultural reflection, turning him into a world-class literary voice.
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About Umberto Eco
Birth
1932
Death
2016
First book
1980
Years writing
46
Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, semiotician and philosopher, one of the great European intellectuals of the 20th century. The Name of the Rose blended medieval mystery and cultural reflection, turning him into a world-class literary voice.
He was born in Alessandria, Italy, on 5 January 1932 and died in Milan on 19 February 2016.
He earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Turin with a thesis on the aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas.
He was one of the most influential semioticians of the 20th century and taught for decades at the University of Bologna.
The Name of the Rose (1980) was his first novel and has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide.
He built a personal library of around 50,000 volumes, one of the largest in private hands.
