Umberto Eco OMRI (Italian: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician essayist philosopher literary critic and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose) an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction biblical analysis medieval studies and literary theory.
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birth date
1932-01-05
birth place
Piedmont, Alessandria
era
20th-century philosophy, Contemporary philosophy
influenced by
Immanuel Kant, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur Conan Doyle
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