Umberto Eco, 84, Best-Selling Academic Who Navigated Two Worlds, Dies (Published 2016)

Umberto Eco in Bologna, Italy, last year. As a semiotician, Mr. Eco studied signs and symbols.Credit...Roberto Serra/Iguana Press, via Getty Images 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 on Friday at his home in Milan. He was 84. His Italian publisher, Bompi

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ウンベルト・エーコと作品の評価

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”semiotician and best-selling author”

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ウンベルト・エーコの死を報じるNew York Times。死因は明らかにされていないと。　>No cause was given.