Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria, in Piedmont, on 5 January 1932. In Turin in 1954 he defended a thesis on the aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, then worked on the cultural programmes of public television, and from 1959 to 1975 at the publisher Bompiani. Holder of the chair of semiotics at the University of Bologna from 1975, he published his first novel at forty-eight and for decades wrote a column in the weekly L'Espresso. He died in Milan on 19 February 2016.

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• NovelThe Name of the RoseIl nome della rosaUmberto Eco · 1980Literature