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Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer (1932–2016)
Umberto Eco[a]OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) 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.[3]
Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco Hayez) appearing 27 January 2016.[4][5] At the time of his death, he was an Emeritus professor at the University of Bologna, where he taught for much of his life.[6] In
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1Umberto Eco has been one of the main protagonists of international semiotics since the second half of the last century; this is clear to all those interested in this discipline. Many of his theoretical and analytical contributions are equally well known. There is a literature already rich about his work, culminating in two important books such as Lorusso 2008 and Paolucci 2017. But some factors have probably made the line of thought and the fundamental theoretical project of his work less clear to the public. The most important are probably the wealth and the heterogeneity of its production; his way of working in progress, so that there is often no identity between Italian books and their English translations; the commitment in the political and cultural debate that has often underlined urgent but peripheral issues on the theoretical one; the importance assumed by narrative production in recent years. To illustrate the overall project of the semiotic work of Umberto Eco, probably the best way is to contextualize its origin with respect to the discipline that it helpe
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Umberto Eco
The University of Bologna showered Umberto Eco with all of the titles and awards at its disposal, grateful to the renowned semiologist for having enriched it with his teaching and the courses that he created and made famous.
Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria in 1932. The grandson of a typographer and son of a railway employee, he was immediately drawn to the world of reading and the cult of the book.
After completing his classical education at the secondary school in his hometown, he enrolled in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Turin, graduating in 1954 with a thesis on the aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, which was responsible, as Eco himself wrote ironically some time later, for having miraculously healed him of his faith (he revised his thesis in 1956, turning it into his first book: Il problema estetico in San Tommaso).
After graduating, he went to work at Rai along with other brilliant young intellectuals, forming a mixed and revolutionary group dubbed the “corsairs” and thanks to which the television programme schedule w
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