Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco in 2005.
Born	(1932-01-05)5 January 1932 Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
Died	19 February 2016(2016-02-19) (aged 84)[1] Milan, Italy
Era	20th / 21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Main interests	Semiotics
Notable ideas	The "open work" (opera aperta), the "intention of the reader" ("intentio lectoris"), the "limits" of interpretation
Influences Thomas Aquinas, Charles Sanders Peirce, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Conan Doyle
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Umberto Eco (January 5, 1932 – February 19, 2016) was an Italian writer and professor of medieval history in Bologna.

Eco was born in 1932 in northern Italy.

As a student, he studied philosophy, history, literature, and educational sciences. He finished his studies in 1954 with a doctoral thesis about Thomas Aquinas. In 1962, he married.

His career as an author began with The Name of the Rose in 1980, after he had already written many academic papers.

1. ↑ "È morto lo scrittore Umberto Eco" [The writer Umberto Eco is dead]. Corriere Della Sera Online (in Italian). 19 February 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.