Umberto Eco, Italian novelist and intellectual, dies aged 84

The celebrated Italian intellectual Umberto Eco, who shot to fame with his 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, has been remembered as a master of Italian culture after his death at the age of 84. Eco died on Friday night after suffering from cancer, prompting tributes to pour in for the esteemed writer. He was “an extraordinary example of a European intellectual, combining unique intelligence of the

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ガーディアンには、ウンベルト・エーコはかねてから癌をわずらっていた、とは書いてあるが。>The author, who had been suffering from cancer, passed away at 9.30pm (8.30pm GMT) on Friday, La Repubblica said on its website.