Umberto Eco, Italian Writer(1932-2016)

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• Name: Umberto Eco
• Birth: January 5, 1932, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
• Death: February 19, 2016, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
• Language: Italian
• Who he was: Italian novelist, critic, and philosopher; The Name of the Rose; Foucault's Pendulum; The Island of the Day Before; The Prague Cemetery
• Included in lists (What's This?): GC

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