Umberto Eco

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essayist human medievalist novelist philosopher public intellectual semiotician university professor

Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, philosopher, semiotician, and scholar best known for his erudite historical mystery "The Name of the Rose."

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	essayist → human → medievalist → novelist → philosopher → public intellectual → semiotician → university professor →
academicDegree	PhD in philosophy →
awardReceived	Légion d'honneur → Premio Bancarella → Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities → Strega Prize →
burialPlace	Monumental Cemetery of Milan →
causeOfDeath	pancreatic cancer →
countryOfCitizenship	Italy →
dateOfBirth	1932-01-05 →
dateOfDeath	2016-02-19 →
educatedAt	University of Turin →
employer	University of Bologna →
familyName	Eco →
fieldOfWork	aesthetics → literary theory → media studies → medieval studies → philosophy → semiotics →
fullName	Umberto Eco →
gender	male →
genre	historical novel → mystery fiction → philosophical fiction →
givenName	Umberto →
hasInfluenced	contemporary semiotics → postmodern literature →
languageOfWorkOrName	Italian →
movement	postmodernism → structuralism →
nativeLanguage	Italian →
notableIdea	interpretive cooperation of the reader → model reader →
notableWork	A Theory of Semiotics → Baudolino → Foucault's Pendulum → How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays → Kant and the Platypus → Numero Zero → On Beauty → On Ugliness → The Island of the Day Before → The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana → The Name of the Rose → The Open Work → The Prague Cemetery → Travels in Hyperreality →
occupation	essayist → novelist → philosopher → semiotician → university professor →
placeOfBirth	Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy →
placeOfDeath	Milan, Italy →
positionHeld	Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna →
religion	Roman Catholicism →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Charles Sanders Peirce → Italo Calvino → Jorge Luis Borges →	influenced
Sapienza University of Rome → University of Turin →	hasNotableAlumni
The Name of the Rose (film) →	basedOnWorkBy
Umberto Eco →	fullName
Einaudi →	hasPublished
Campiello Prize →	notableWinner