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27 unusual facts about Umberto Eco


Alain le Pichon

With Umberto Eco he founded Transcultura, an international institute, of which he became the president.

Antonio Cecere

Carmine di Biase compared Antonio Cecere's writing to Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.

Belief or Nonbelief?

Belief or Nonbelief? (originally published in Italian as In cosa crede chi non crede?) is a 1996 non-fiction book by Umberto Eco and Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini.

Bernard Gui

Bernard Gui (as Bernardo Gui) is an antagonist in the historical novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

Bertrand du Pouget

The Name of the Rose - a historical novel by Umberto Eco in which Bertrand du Pouget is one of the characters.

Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica

Amongst the advocates to protect the collection was Umberto Eco.

E.I.N.S.

The sentence "Wer keine Angst vor dem Teufel hat, braucht auch keinen Gott" (Who doesn't fear the devil, doesn't need a god) comes from the novel "The Name of the Rose" (Umberto Eco, 1980).

Eberbach Abbey

After considerable structural work Eberbach serves inter alia as a venue of international importance for cultural events and displays, and as a film location, as for example for Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1985).

Frank Popper

This commitment to the teeming openness found in virtual art can be traced to the theories of Umberto Eco and other aestheticians.

Gianni Coscia

Of interest: the liner notes to his first CD were written Umberto Eco and he collaborated with Luciano Berio in the writing of the music of a stage show against antisemitism.

Gu Hyo-seo

Reminiscent of Borges and Eco, Secret Door is a novel about history and religion.

Lapo Mosca

The first Lapo Mosca novel was published in 1978, a few years before The Name of the Rose in 1980 by Umberto Eco, the third and last one in 1991.

Lee In-hwa

The Eternal Empire (Yeongwonhan jeguk), modeled after Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, borrows elements of a detective novel in tracing the mystery surrounding the death of Prince Sado and his son King Jeongjo.

Literariness

Many of these scholars, which included Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Umberto Eco to name a few, stated that literariness cannot be defined solely on the basis of linguistic properties found within a text but that the reader is also a crucial factor in the construction of meaning (Zwaan 1993, p. 8).

Mario Perniola

While he was reading philosophy in Turin, he met Gianni Vattimo, Umberto Eco, who all became prominent scholars of Pareyson’s school.

Mazen Asfour

Dr. Azfour spent almost 15 years in Florence and Bologna, studying “museologia”, Art criticism, aesthetics, semiology where Prof. Umberto Eco is taking his cultural role at the University of Bologna.

Melk Abbey

In his well-known novel The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco named one of the protagonists "Adson von Melk" as a tribute to the abbey and its famous library.

Neo-medievalism

Neo-medievalism (or neomedievalism) is a neologism that was first popularized by Italian medievalist Umberto Eco in his 1986 essay "Dreaming in the Middle Ages".

Occupation of Japan

In accordance with the work of Umberto Eco he noted a difference between expectancy and fulfillment of this particular word and concept.

Opera Soft

Nevertheless, their most important title is probably La Abadía del Crimen (The Abbey of Crime), based on Umberto Eco's best-seller The Name of the Rose.

Pndapetzim

Eco, Umberto, Baudolino, Harvest Books, 2003 (ISBN 0-15-602906-5)

Pndapetzim is a fictitious city depicted in Umberto Eco's Baudolino.

Provadia

Places of interest include the Lambova Kashta ethnographical complex and ethnographical collections in Dobrina and Manastir villages, as well as cave monasteries and the ruins of the 9-10th-century Ravna Monastery, one of the most important centres of the Preslav Literary School, dubbed "language laboratory" by Umberto Eco for its graffiti by common folks in several languages and alphabets.

Sebastian Shaumyan

Roman Jakobson praised his "genuine enthusiasm for inspired research and inspiring teaching"; while for Umberto Eco, Shaumyan’s model is the only alternative to Chomsky's.

Stephen Shank

In July 2011, he will be directing the stage world premiere of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose in the ruins of the Cistercian Abbey of Villers-la-Ville, Belgium.

Tim Tyler's Luck

The title of the Umberto Eco novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) is taken from the title of a strip episode, in turn inspired by H. Rider Haggard's novel She.

Vanity press

A slightly more sophisticated model of a vanity press is described by Umberto Eco in Foucault's Pendulum.


Fra Dolcino

Fra Dolcino and his former followers are mentioned often in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.

Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

Kant and the Platypus : Essays on Language and Cognition (ISBN 0-15-601159-X) is a book by Umberto Eco which was published in Italian as Kant e l'ornitorinco in 1997.

LIVE from the NYPL

Since 2005, guests such as Tina Brown, Spike Lee, Umberto Eco, Jay-Z, Salman Rushdie, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Werner Herzog, and many others have appeared in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building to talk about subjects such as literature, art, popular culture, philosophy, and music.

Mafalda

Mafalda has occasionally been pointed out as being influenced by Charles Schulz's Peanuts, most notably by Umberto Eco in 1968, who contrasted the two characters.

Michael of Cesena

Michael of Cesena was one of the historical characters in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.

Shrine of the Three Kings

In the novel Baudolino (2000), Umberto Eco describes the discovery and subsequent donation of the Magi's relics as an elaborate 12th century hoax perpetrated by the title character.

Sidnei Tendler

In this period he also took a course in Semiology with Professor Umberto Eco and History of Urbanism with Professor Leonardo Benévolo.

Sylvano Bussotti

He was, or is, well acquainted with writers and film directors Aldo Palazzeschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Aldo Braibanti, Mario Zanzotto, Fabio Casadei Turroni, Dacia Maraini, Umberto Eco.

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

This theme had been explored previously in fiction by Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe and the robinsonade genre) and Voltaire (Candide), and more recently by William Golding (Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin), Umberto Eco (The Island of the Day Before), J.M. Coetzee (Foe), José Saramago (The Stone Raft and The Tale of the Unknown Island).