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Umberto Eco

5 January 1932 - 19 February 2016

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.

Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino,[3] president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

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  • Cover of: The Name of the Rose (including author's postscript)

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  • Cover of: Foucault's pendulum
    First published in 1988 73 editions in 12 languages — 16 previewable Cover of edition deslingervanfouc0000ecou_n7q5 Cover of edition deslingervanfouc0000ecou_y7i8 Cover of edition lependuledefouca0000ecou_n4k3 Cover of edition lependuledefouca0000ecou Cover of edition maiatnikfuko00ecou Cover of edition deslingervanfouc0000ecou Cover of edition foucaultspendulu00umbe Cover of edition foucaultspendulu0000ecou_j1c3 Cover of edition foucaultspend00ecou

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  • Cover of: Baudolino
    First published in 2000 54 editions in 10 languages — 18 previewable Cover of edition baudolino0000ecou_e9y5 Cover of edition baudolino0000ecou_p1h2 Cover of edition baudolino0000ecou_y0u2 Cover of edition baudolino01ecou Cover of edition baudolino01ecou Cover of edition baudolino0000ecou_r7o5 Cover of edition baudolino00ecou Cover of edition baudolino0000ecou Cover of edition baudolinoroman0000ecou_u0b2

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  • Cover of: The island of the day before

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  • Cover of: The mysterious flame of Queen Loana: an illustrated novel

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  • Cover of: Prague Cemetery
    First published in 2010 27 editions in 7 languages — 10 previewable Cover of edition debegraafplaatsv0000ecou_s2l5 Cover of edition lecimetieredepra0000ecou Cover of edition elcementeriodepr0000ecou Cover of edition dasendedergeduld0000heis_j3r9 Cover of edition praguecemetery0000ecou_b1v8 Cover of edition praguecemetery0000ecou_c1s5 Cover of edition praguecemetery00ecou_0 Cover of edition praguecemetery0000ecou Cover of edition ilcimiterodiprag00ecou

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  • Cover of: How to travel with a salmon & other essays

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  • Cover of: Numéro zéro: roman
    First published in 2013 21 editions in 7 languages — 4 previewable Cover of edition nmerocero0000ecou Cover of edition numerocero0000ecou Cover of edition numerozero0000ecou

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  • Cover of: How to write a thesis

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  • Cover of: The open work
    First published in 1962 20 editions in 5 languages — 4 previewable Cover of edition openwork0000ecou Cover of edition kaifangdezuopin0000ecou Cover of edition obraabierta00ecou

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  • Cover of: La structure absente: Introduction à la recherche sémiotique

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  • Cover of: Apocalypse postponed
    First published in 1965 18 editions in 3 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition apocalypsepostpo0000ecou_v2v7 Cover of edition apocalipticosein00ecou

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  • Cover of: Kant and the platypus: essays on language and cognition

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  • Cover of: Five moral pieces
    First published in 1997 17 editions in 5 languages — 5 previewable Cover of edition cincoescritosmor0000ecou Cover of edition fivemoralpieces00ecou Cover of edition fivemoralpieces0000ecou Cover of edition viermoralischesc00ecou

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  • Cover of: Art and beauty in the Middle Ages

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  • Cover of: Interpretation and overinterpretation

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  • Cover of: Semiotics and the philosophy of language
    First published in 1983 13 editions in 4 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition semioticsphiloso00ecou_498

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  • Cover of: Misreadings
    First published in 1963 13 editions in 4 languages — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: The limits of interpretation
    First published in 1990 12 editions in 4 languages — 4 previewable Cover of edition leslimitesdelint0000ecou Cover of edition limitsofinterpre00ecou Cover of edition loslimitesdelain00ecou

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  • Cover of: Postscript to The name of the rose
    First published in 1983 11 editions in 6 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition apostilleaunomde0000ecou Cover of edition nachschriftzumna00ecou

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