Umberto Eco

Biography

Here is a biography for Umberto Eco: Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, philosopher, and university professor known for his historical mysteries combining semiotics with biblical analysis and literary theory. His most famous work, Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), published in 1980, has become a classic in the genre. A prolific writer, Eco also wrote novels such as Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before, as well as essays and academic texts.