Umberto Eco
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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Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
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2026
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
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2023
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
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2022
Why Are We Creative?
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2018
Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore
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2014
The Name of the Rose
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1986
La Notte
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1961
KO Club
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📖 Books
Numero Zero
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2013
Il cimitero di Praga
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2010
La Misteriosa fiamma della Regina Loana
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2004
Belief or Nonbelief?
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2001
Baudolino
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2000
Tra menzogna e ironia
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1998
Kant e l'ornitorinco
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1997
Six promenades dans les bois du roman et d'ailleurs
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1994
L'isola del giorno prima
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1994
Gli gnomi di gnù
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1992
Comment voyager avec un saumon
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1992
Il superuomo di massa
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1990
Los Tres Astronautas/ The Three Astronauts
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1989
La bomba e il generale
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1988
Il pendolo di Foucault
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1988
Art et beauté dans l'esthétique médiévale
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1986
Faith in fakes
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1986
Semiotica y Filosofia del Lenguaje
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1983
Imi︠a︡ rozy
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1980
Il nome della rosa
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1980
Opera Aperta
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1962
The meaning of meaning
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1923