He is a professor of semiotics, the study of communication through signs and symbols, at the University of Bologna. Also a philiosopher, a historian, literary critic, and an aesthetician. He is an avid book collector and owns more than 30,000 volumes. The subjects of his scholarly investigations range from St. Thomas Aquinas, to James Joyce, to ...
[When asked if he was working on another novel after the publication of Numero Zero] My books are usually written six years from one to the other. It was eight years for Foucault's Pendulum. So we will have to talk again when I am 90.
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Fact
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Father of assistant director/journalist Stefano Eco, brother of actress Emy Eco.
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He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega; was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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As a child, he spent hours in his grandfather's cellar, reading through the older man's eclectic collection of Jules Verne, Marco Polo, and Charles Darwin, and adventure comics.
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Currently finishing up a new hypertext reference work called the Encyclomedia. [1996]
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He was a founder of the "Gruppo 63".
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Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 37th Venice International Film Festival in 1980.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 132-140. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Non chiederci la parola
2008
text
La abadía del crimen
1987
Video Game novel "Il nome della rosa" - uncredited
The Name of the Rose
1986
novel "Il nome della rosa"
A grande richiesta
1981
TV Series screenplay
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
La Notte
1961
Man at the Party (uncredited)
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Murder in the Abbey
2008
Video Game thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
La grande librairie
2009-2015
TV Series
Himself
The Neorealism: We Were Not Just Bicycles Thieves
2013
Documentary
Himself - Interviewed
A Dialogue on Facts Fiction History
2013
Video
Himself
La Maison de la radio
2013
Documentary
Himself
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012
Documentary
Himself
Charlie Rose
1995-2012
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco
2012
TV Movie
Himself
The Hour
2011
TV Series
Himself
Quiproquo
2011
Documentary
Página 2
2011
TV Series
Himself
Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra
2010
Documentary
Himself
Chwilami zycie bywa znosne...
2010
Documentary
Himself
Che tempo che fa
2009
TV Series
Himself - Guest
LeseZeichen
2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
Dove la bellezza non si annoia mai
2006
Himself
Double je
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
Sabine Christiansen
2003
TV Series
Himself
Campus, le magazine de l'écrit
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself
Continuarà...
2001
TV Series
Himself
Vol de nuit
1999
TV Series
Himself
Avisa'ns quan arribi el 2000
1998
TV Series
Himself
Bouillon de culture
1996-1998
TV Series documentary
Himself
Droit d'auteurs
1996
TV Series
Himself
El lector
1995
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Lo + plus
1995
TV Series
Himself
7 sur 7
1990
TV Series
Himself
La rosa dei nomi
1987
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Die Abtei des Verbrechens: Umberto Ecos 'Der Name der Rose' wird verfilmt
1986
TV Movie documentary
Himself, author of 'Il nome della rosa'
Voices
1985
TV Series
Himself
Book Four
1984
TV Series
Himself - Interviewee
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore
2014
Documentary
Himself
Unsere Besten
2004
TV Series
Himself
Known for movies
The Name of the Rose (1986) as Writer
Quiproquo (2011) as Actor
Die Abtei des Verbrechens: Umberto Ecos 'Der Name der Rose' wird verfilmt (1986) as Himself, author of 'Il nome della rosa'
Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra (2010) as Himself
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