Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (Alessandria, 5 January 1932) is an Italian writer and semiotician. He is one of the most famous living Italian writers.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Eco was born in the Northern Italian region Piedmont. He received salesiaans education and studied medieval philosophy at the University of Turin. Until 2008 he was Professor in the semiotics at the University of Bologna. Eco was raised Catholic, but was later atheist.
 * 2 Esperanto
 * 3 select bibliography
 * 4 Literature

As a writer broke through internationally in 1980 with his novel Eco Il Nome della Rosa (the name of the rose), an exciting detective novel in 1327 set in the context of the struggle between the central authority of the Roman Catholic Church and various currents in it that were suppressed by force. The historical background is extended sketched. The book exudes the rhythm of monastic life and the chapters are classified according to the prayer times within the monastery walls.

A second novel, Foucault's pendulum, is set in the present, but is mainly about the legacy of the Knights Templar and Rosicrucians, late medieval mystical movements.

In addition, a number of bundles with Eco's essays appeared and three novels: the island of the day before (1995), Baudolino (2001) and the mysterious flame of Queen Loana (2005). In 2001 he wrote along with the retired Archbishop of Milan, Carlo Maria Martini the book believe or not believe: a confrontation.

Eco is also known as an authority on James Bond. [1]  in 1998 he got the exclusive German distinction "Pour le Mérite". Eco is also a writer of children's books.

In 2012, he received the peace of Nijmegen Penny. ==Esperanto[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Eco has also researched the Esperanto: "I used to think a plan language could have no use. A closer look at Esperanto when I went, I noticed, however, that I had to revise my opinion." ==Concise bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Signature<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Only the year of publication is listed in Italy.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Fiction

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Non-Fiction
 * Il nome della rosa, the name of the rose, 1980
 * Il pendolo di Foucault, Foucault's pendulum, 1988
 * L'isola del giorno prima, the island of the day before, 1994
 * Baudolino, Baudolino, 2000
 * La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana, the mysterious flame of Queen Loana, 2004
 * Il cimitero di Praga, Prague cemetery, 2010


 * Come si fa una tesi di laurea, How do I write a thesis, 1977
 * A semiotic landscape. Panorama sémiotique. Proceedings of the Ist Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, 1979]] (with Seymour Chatman and Jean-Marie Klinkenberg).
 * The library, the bibliotheca, 1981
 * Specchi e Sugli altri saggi, What mirrors concerns, 1985
 * Il secondo diario minimo, Inverted world. Small Chronicle, 1993 (reprint if traveling with a salmon, 1995)
 * La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura, Europe and the perfect language, 1993
 * Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi (Six Walks in the Fictional Woods: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Harvard University, 1992-1993), Six walks through fictional forests, 1994
 * Side e l'ornitorinco, Kant and the Platypus, 1997
 * Sulla letteratura, on literature, 2002
 * Storia della Bellezza, The history of beauty, 2004
 * Storia della Brutezza, the history of the ugliness, 2007
 * Vertigine della lista, the magic of lists, 2009
 * Confessions of a Young Novellist, confessions of a young novelist, 2011
 * Costruire il nemico e altri scritti occasionali, creating the enemy; occasional writings, 2011
 * Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari, the history of imaginary countries and places (2013)