Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (born 1932)

Umberto Eco

Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer (1932–2016)

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…