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Bookmark or Share- Umberto Eco - WikipediaUmberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
- The Name of the Rose | Summary, Author, Movie, & FactsThe Name of the Rose, novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco, published in Italian in 1980. Although the work stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of the meaning of “ truth ” from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives. Summary.
- The Name of the Rose - WikipediaThe Name of the Rose ( Italian: Il nome della rosa [il ˈnoːme della ˈrɔːza]) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.
- Umberto Eco, author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dead at 84The Italian author and academic who became one of Italy’s best-known cultural exports and keenest cultural critics, died at home in Milan on Friday evening after a battle with cancer, according to a family member who asked not to be identified. His death was earlier confirmed by his American publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Umberto Eco summary | BritannicaUmberto Eco, (born Jan. 5, 1932, Alessandria, Italy—died Feb. 19, 2016, Milan), Italian critic and novelist. He taught in Florence, Milan, and Bologna. In The Open Work (1962), he argued for the fundamentally ambiguous nature of certain types of literature and music.
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