Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
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Italian semiotician and novelist who cracked the code on how stories work. The Name of the Rose made medieval monasteries and cryptic symbolism weirdly readable to millions in 1980.
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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 Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
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