Umberto Eco died

On February 19, in Milan, at the age of 84, the Italian writer, Semiotik and culturologist Umberto Eco died.

It is reported by Reuters .

Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in Alessandria (Piedmont), in 1954 he graduated from Turin University, where he studied medieval philosophy and literature.

In the same year, he began working on the State TV channel RAI editor of culture programs. In 1956, he published the first book - an extended version of his dissertation about Thomas Aquinas, in 1959 - the second, which created the author of one of the leading medievalists of his time. Subsequently, IVF finalized and reprinted it under the name “Art and Beauty in medieval aesthetics” (1987).

Also, among the main scientific works of IVF, “Open Work” (1962), “Filtened and Coated” (1964), “Joyce Poetics” (1965), “Sign” (1971), “Treatise on the General Semiotics” (1975), “On the periphery of the empire” (1977), “Semiotics and philosophy of the language” (1984), “The limits of interpretation” (1990).

Since the late 1950s, Eco has been the senior editor of the Literature of the Non-Fixing of the Milan Publishing House Bompiani , was published in Il Verri , L'Espresso and other periodicals.

He taught aesthetics and culture theory at the universities of Turin, Milan, Florence and Bologna, gave lectures and led seminars at universities around the world, was an honorary doctor of many foreign universities.

In 1980, Umberto IVF published his first novel, “The name of the Rose”, which brought him worldwide glory as a writer. The book immediately became a bestseller and was translated into dozens of languages. In 1986, a film adaptation of the novel was released in the production of Jean-Jacques Anno with Son Connery in the title role.

In addition, IVF was written by the novels of the Pendulum Foucault (1988), “Island on the eve” (1994), “Baudolino” (2000), “The mysterious flame of Queen Loana” (2004). Prague Cemetery (2010). His last novel, “Zero number”, was published in Bompiani in January 2015.