Confession: I’m a bookaholic. And I’ve been one all my life. Once, as a toddler, I was taken to visit my parents’ friends Martha and Eugenio, and the only thing I remember is being fascinated by the ...

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ROME --Italian author Umberto Eco, who intrigued, puzzled and delighted readers worldwide with his best-selling historical novel "The Name of the Rose," has died. Spokeswoman Lori Glazer of Eco's ...

Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died Friday in Italy. He ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In his essay “Lumbar Thought,” Umberto Eco, who died last week at 84, worried that blue jeans limit our capacity for thought. He wasn’t objecting to the ...

ROME — The last book from Italian literary giant Umberto Eco, who died last week, will be published on Friday (Feb 26), his publishers said. “Pape Satan Aleppe. Chronicles of a Liquid Society” is a ...

But Eco’s scholarship set this mystery apart. The story revolves on a series of intellectual riddles, and a forbidden book that may hold the key to the murder. The novel has been called a parable of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco, best known for his 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, has died aged 84. Eco's family told local ...

' I am reaching the end of my ordeal," says Umberto Eco when we meet. Happily, I don't take this personally. Eco – philosopher, semiotician, novelist, bibliophile and all-round brainbox – has been on ...